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Otters Cottages, LINCOLN, LN5 8NF

Row of 9 Victorian era terraced cottages with date stone 1880. Terrace block of 4 modern terraced houses, built 2009, seen at end of row.

Row of 9 Victorian era terraced cottages, featuring date stone for 1880.

4 new cottage-style dwellings currently being erected on land to west of Otter's Cottages as at August 2009.

Row of 9 Victorian 3 bedroomed, terraced cottages with date stone reading 'Otter's Cottages 1880', situated off unadopted pathway just off Newark Road, close to St. Catherine's area Built of red brick, originally with slate roofs to front and red clay pantile to rear; only 2 cottages now retain original Georgian-style timber sash windows. Each cottage has a privy [now disused!] and coal shed to rear; the smallest 1st floor bedroom in numbers 2 thro' 9 has been converted to a bathroom. Number 1 has a modern, single storey bathroom / utility extension to the rear, built late 1980's. As at August 2009, new build of 4 small terraced cottage-style houses being erected on land due west of Otter's Cottages; this area was originally part of 'Otter's Field' and freeholders of Otter's Cottages held the right to drive pigs down to the field twice a year.

Wintry River Witham scene at Boultham

The Willows is shown on the 1885 OS map but my earlier maps don't reach out of Lincoln this far. The Character Statement for the area describes Hamilton road as new in c.1860; it's not in Akrils 1857 directory and I can't find it in the Post Office 1868 directory. In White's 1872 directory there is only one house in Hamilton Road occupied by William Mason music dealer who is listed in 1885 at the Willows. It suggests therefore house was built 1869 to 1872, presumably for Mason. It seems half of the 1994 garage (that replaced an earlier version) was converted to an office in 2007.

With the spire of St Katherine's Church behind the trees.

The old trackbed is now thick with woodlands