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The Grade II Listed Exchange Arcade, built in 1847, Cornhill, Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
Originally opened as a Corn Exchange by the Lincoln Corn Exchange and Market Co. Designed by Architect W A Nicholson and built by Kirk of Sleaford.
The foundation stone was laid on 1st September 1847 and opened in April 1848 and completed at the cost of £15000 (£1.196 Million in modern money). It was found to be too small, so was enlarged in 1853 with the addition of the west end at a further cost of £1000.
It operated as exchange until a larger building was required and the new Corn Exchange was built in 1879/1880. In 1882 it was renamed Exchange Arcade and was altered to create an arcade with 12 small shops on either side of a central walkway, with a larger shop at east and west ends. This arrangement continued until the 1950s when the walkway was moved to the north side, with 6 shop units extending the width of the building.
The basement/cellar was Hattons Tea Rooms from the early 1900s until the 1930s; in 1939 it was intended for use as an air raid shelter; 1950s a store for bananas; it was part-renovated in 1976, with the cellar opening as Cornhill Vaults Public House in December 1976 until it's closure in 2000.
In 2002, the whole of the eastern part of the building was gutted except for the external walls; a lift and new piles were inserted and a completely new open-plan interior created. Brick culverts were recorded at the western end below cellar level. It remained Unoccupied until 2005 when the current occupiers Waterstones bookshop opened. The West end in the 1960s-70s was Wakefields Army Stores and since 2010 Santander Bank.
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The Grade II Listed Exchange Arcade, built in 1847, Cornhill, Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
Originally opened as a Corn Exchange by the Lincoln Corn Exchange and Market Co. Designed by Architect W A Nicholson and built by Kirk of Sleaford.
The foundation stone was laid on 1st September 1847 and opened in April 1848 and completed at the cost of £15000 (£1.196 Million in modern money). It was found to be too small, so was enlarged in 1853 with the addition of the west end at a further cost of £1000.
It operated as exchange until a larger building was required and the new Corn Exchange was built in 1879/1880. In 1882 it was renamed Exchange Arcade and was altered to create an arcade with 12 small shops on either side of a central walkway, with a larger shop at east and west ends. This arrangement continued until the 1950s when the walkway was moved to the north side, with 6 shop units extending the width of the building.
The basement/cellar was Hattons Tea Rooms from the early 1900s until the 1930s; in 1939 it was intended for use as an air raid shelter; 1950s a store for bananas; it was part-renovated in 1976, with the cellar opening as Cornhill Vaults Public House in December 1976 until it's closure in 2000.
In 2002, the whole of the eastern part of the building was gutted except for the external walls; a lift and new piles were inserted and a completely new open-plan interior created. Brick culverts were recorded at the western end below cellar level. It remained Unoccupied until 2005 when the current occupiers Waterstones bookshop opened. The West end in the 1960s-70s was Wakefields Army Stores and since 2010 Santander Bank.