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Monks Road, LINCOLN, LN2 5BY

Part of a terrace of eight houses. The application to build was made by J M Harrison in 1884. No.76 uniquely had a side entrance on Arboretum Avenue. 78 must have been built by August 1888 as John Curtis’ death was recorded here then. At some stage (after 1965) 76 and 78 were combined to one 2,500 sq ft property. The Arboretum Surgery shut in January 2017. Apparently sold in October 2020 by the November it seemed to be undergoing conversion to 7 flats as the planning granted in the July. No.80 has a later substantial two-storey extension to the rear that appears to have been a separate dwelling on Arboretum View and that may have been incorporated into the main property about 2013. No.82 has a later single-storey rear extension that also incorporates a garage.

Corner shop on Monks Road / Arboretum Avenue

This K6 telephone kiosk, designed 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, outside the Arboretum on Monks Road was Grade II listed in august 1991.

View down Arboretum Avenue from the corner with Lindum Avenue

The entrance/exit gates to the Arboretum, which lead from/to Monks Road. There are other ways in and out of the park.

The sunny side of Arboretum Avenue with stepped terraced housing typical of the Monks Road area of Lincoln

Dates from the opening of the Arboretum in 1872 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388698 Now in other use.

Grade II Listed gate lodge. With a datestone marked “W HARRISON MAYOR 1872” it was probably designed by Edward Milner and was built by Robert Barker of Sincil Street, Lincoln. It appears to have been the Arboretum Superintendents house until about 1913 when Gentle Smith, gardener appears in directories. It was extended to the rear in 1906. It was restored and extended north to house the Abbey Access Centre (to offer affordable meals and training for local people) by the City Council in 2003-04 as part of a £3m restoration of the arboretum. The arboretum land was given to the abbey of St Mary at York after the Conquest and then acquired by the city after the dissolution of St Marys Abbey in the 1530s. Some sold as building land, Lincoln Corporation purchased 15 acres/6.3877 hectares in 1870 for the laying-out of the Arboretum (extended 1894 now 22 acres). Designed by Edward Milner (1819-1884) it opened on 26th August 1872 at a cost of £4,500 but I’m not clear if that included the lodges.

The Arboretum opened in 1872.

From Lindum Terrace down Cheviot Street to the junction of Monks Road and Baggeholme or Baggholme Road.