page_title: William Watkins (architect)
section_title: Houses
hierarchical_section_title: William Watkins (architect) / Works include / Houses
caption_attribution_description: English: Victorian houses on Lindum Road (2-3) Temple Gardens, designed by the Lincoln architect William Watkins in 1887
context_page_description: William Watkins was an architect who worked in Lincoln, England, and is particularly noted for his Terracotta Revival Architecture.
context_section_description: House for William Old. Lindum Terrace,Lincoln. 1864.
  House on the Strait, Lincoln, 1868.  Opposite the Jews Court, built for himself.This appears to be a mis-attribution.
  77 South Park, Lincoln. A house built for the Lincoln industrialist Robert Robey in 1871. This overlooks the South Common.
  Burton Hall, Burton by Lincoln. Alterations and additions for Lord Monson in 1872, including the design of the gates.
  Essendon House, 36 Nettleham Road, Lincoln. Built in 1872 for Miss Barley. A further classroom was added later. 
  Leyland House, 2 The Grove, Nettleham Road, 1875. Watkins' family.home.
  Boultham Hall, Lincoln. 1872. Alterations and restoration work to the Hall for Major Ellison. Now demolished.
  Willoughby Hall, Ancaster, 1876. A house designed in 1873 by Watkins for F. W. Allix.  In Jacobethan style with shaped gables and showing French renaissance. The house was completed by 1875 at an estimated cost of £28,000. The estate was sold in 1912 and again in 1928 The sale particulars show that it had a lofty hall with four main reception rooms with elaborate carved fireplaces, a smoking room, a broad staircase leading to a first floor with eight main bedrooms and nine bedrooms on the second floor. During World War II it was occupied by the army and was then used for bombing practice by the RAF. It was finally destroyed with dynamite in 1963. The stable block, dated 1876 survives and was converted into a house in 2010.
  13 Greetwell Road, Lincoln 1877. A “villa” residence for Mr T C Lazenby, designed by William Watkins.  Brick with shaped  Dutch gables. 
  *2-3 Temple Gardens, Lindum Road, Lincoln (1877). Built for W. Watson. Brick with prominent shaped or Dutch gables
  St Nicholas Parsonage, Newport, Lincoln 1879. Built for the Rev F.B.Blenkin for £1950 plus £100 architect's commission. This was replaced in 1912 by the vicarage built for Canon Leeke to the north of St Nicholas Church.
  Nettleham Hall, Nettleham. 1876. Destroyed by fire in 1937 and now in ruins.
   
  1885 15-25 West Parade, Lincoln, Six terraced houses, brick with stone dressings and with original cast iron railings. Each house has three storeys above a sunken basement level with two storeyed balconied bay windows. Each house has a triangular gable and is offset against the next and has  an advanced round arched entrance porch with  a single bay above. Built for Charles Tomlinson, local chemist and property owner, most are in original condition, complete with boundary walls and railings. Built as town houses but all are now offices. 
  5, 7, 9, 11, 13 & 15 Beaumont Fee, Lincoln.(1885) Six terraced brick houses with shaped gables facing the street and no. 15 with a wing with a shaped gable to-wards West Parade. The houses facing the street have  two bays to each gable  at first floor level, a single storied bow window,  with, at the side, a stuccoed entrance porch with a broken scrolled pediment above. On the wall of the wing to no. 15 is an datestone with the inscription CHARLES KNOWLES TOMLINSON BUILT THESE HOUSES  1885.   The architect was William Watkins. Built as town houses but all are now offices
  Canwick House, Canwick, Lincolnshire. 1889. now Canwick House Care Home.  Red brick,  terracotta, with decorativeterracotta panels and gables. Built as Canwick Rectory in a Queen Anne Revival, or Dutch Revival, style.
  1896. 10/11 Lindum Terrace,Lincoln. Arts and Crafts with timbering and pargeting.
  Somerby House, 8 Lindum Terrace.  A very large house  in a Neo-Elizabethan style on the corner with Eastcliff Road. Designed by Watkins & Sons for  W Dawson. The main range set east-west, with radial wings towards the south and the south-west with further ranges to the north. The south-west range has a shaped gable. Domed tower and entrance at the south east, upper part with half timbering and below a pedimented window. Brick with stone dressings. 
  9 Lindum Terrace, Lincoln. 1898. Red brick with stone dressing. Corner tower with crenulated top. Tall chimney stacks and crested ridge tiles. Built for W Dawson. Domed bay windows,
caption: 2-3 Temple Gardens, Lindum Road 1877
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