Lincoln House
| Width | 48" | Depth (max) | 20½" (30") | Height (max) | 48" (55") |
| Floors | 4 | Rooms | 11 | Staircases | 3 | External doors | 2 |
| Internal doors | 13 | Opening panels | 3 | Windows | 20 | Chimney stacks | 3 |
| Plaster fireplaces | 7 | Washing coppers | 1 | Bread ovens | 1 | Chimney pots | 11 |
This is a large double fronted dolls house2 with rooms either side of a central stair well. You can imagine this as a country seat, the centre piece of your world of wealth, power and influence. Lincoln House is similar to Sudbury Hall but is wider, has a wide front apron and lift-off raised pavement as standard and has even bigger and higher rooms throughout. The pavement creates a service area in front of the basement rooms and makes the façade very imposing.
Lincoln House Photographs
Exterior
Lincoln House is an imposing country home for a wealthy Georgian family. Exterior style was important to Georgian property owners. If the dolls house is plain painted, it simulates smooth render over the entire exterior. If the brick front panel finish is chosen, this is disguised with stucco to the top of the ground floor to simulate a more desirable, but expensive, stone construction. You can choose the exterior finish for the front panel from: plain painted; exposed brick; or, more grand, ashlar masonry. This is the home of someone who is wealthy and who wants you to know that they are.
Lincoln House Venetian window.
The Lincoln House facade is topped by a grand cornice supported by
handmade corbels.
The centrepiece of the 5 bay façade of Lincoln House is its Venetian window above the columned portico. The upper façade is finished with a substantial coving with handmade corbel detail and a parapet consisting of solid and turned balustrade sections. Behind the parapet is a shallow angled slated or tiled hipped roof.
Outside there is an apron covered with grouted flagstones on which stands a substantial full width lift-off pavement. This can be lifted away to enable the front panels to be opened and to reveal the servants' door into the basement.
Lincoln House facade with painted finish.
Lincoln House facade with some of the opening panels open.
View down in the area with the arches supporting
the bridge to the front door visible.
View of portico and pavement separated from the
area by a substantial balustrade.
Lincoln House facade with optional brick finish.
Lincoln House side panel opened to reveal dressing room.
Lincoln House exterior corner view.
Lincoln House slated hipped roof showing cornice, parapet with balustrade inserts and chimney stacks.
View of portico and looking down into the area.
A view of a portico, pavement and area on a house with painted exterior finish.
Area
Although a country house, Lincoln House has a substantial service area between the pavement outside and the front of the house. The front door is approached via a bridge over the area. This is a house that needs servants and facilities for them are provided. There are (fixed) arched doors which would provide access to storage under a real pavement and there are steps leading down from the pavement to the service area to provide access to the separate servants' entrance door. The floor of the area is finished with grouted flagstones.
View of front of house with pavement lifted away to reveal servants'
entrance under the main door.
View down in the area with the arches supporting
the bridge to the front door visible. Note grouted
flagstones and (fixed) arched doors to storage
under the pavement.
Pavement lifted off to reveal grouted flagstones in area, servants'steps and
(fixed) arched doors to storage under the pavement.
Lincoln House area: servants'steps and (fixed)
arched doors to storage under the pavement.
Servants' door in area.
Servants' door open showing light in servants' hall.
Servants' door open with doll by Patricia Hirons.
(Doll not included).
Interior
The overall width is increased by 6" to 48" compared to a Sudbury House which is 42" wide. This makes space for a wider central column of hallways and stairs and permits ceiling heights to be raised to 11¾" on the ground floor, 12¾" on the first floor and 10" on the second floor. With ceilings this high, chandeliers hang well and the enlarged rooms maintain proportion. It also has frame and field panelling in the main reception room into which is built a flush servants' door leading to a servants' back stairs.
It is architecturally consistent and substantial with high ceilings that make the generously sized rooms seem airy and spacious. The proportions allow the serious collector ample scope to furnish the house with the sort of pieces normally associated with a grand house that won't look cramped or out of place. The family accommodation is on the two central floors connected by an elegant double height entrance hall and main staircase while the servants' quarters, in the basement and top floor, are accessed by separate back stairs.
The house is decorated throughout. Wall colours are appropriate to the Georgian period The standard house is decorated throughout with colours appropriate to the Georgian period. On bespoke orders the rooms you can choose your colours from the Farrow & Ball colour card.The two main reception rooms are panelled to dado rail height and one with additional frame and field panelling on the walls between the dado and ceiling coving. Both have ceiling mouldings and ceiling roses. Additional panelling and ceiling mouldings can be added as options.
Unless you choose otherwise, the doors to the ground and first floor rooms are stain varnished and have white painted pediments. All internal doors are fitted with turned brass door knobs. Skirting is fitted throughout and coving to the ceilings of the ground, first and some of the second floors. The first floor reception rooms have stain-varnished doors in door cases with white-painted pediments. There are grouted flagstones in the basement while the rest of the house benefits from scribed floorboards with lifting boards that conceal the wiring for lights. The house is further wired for electric fire grates that could be added into the kitchen alcoves and inside the six plasterwork fireplaces. All fireplaces are fitted with a slate-effect hearth stone.
Lincoln House with pavement removed and all front panels opened.
Lincoln House side panel opened to reveal dressing room and vista across the back of the house
through the top landing to the bedroom beyond.
Lincoln House showing configuration of opening front panels.
Basement
The basement of Lincoln House is divided into three rooms: a kitchen, a scullery and a servants' hall. Servants would have worked and slept in the basement. The right hand basement room is fitted out as a kitchen with bread oven and inglenook arch into which you could place a range. The left hand basement room is a scullery with a washing copper and another inglenook arch. The middle basement room is the servants' hall and would be a bustling place when the family were entertaining guests upstairs. Servants' stairs connect the servants' hallway to the main entrance hall above and to the main reception room via a jib door set into the panelling of the reception room.
Basement scullery with inglenook arch and washing copper.
Servants hallway and stairs to ground floor. The plank door is fixed shut
(the fused power centre for the lights of the lower half of the house is
hidden under the basement stairs).
Basement kitchen with opening bread oven and inglenook arch ready for
a range.
Ground Floor
The ground floor of Lincoln House has two large reception rooms, one either side of the entrance hall and main staircase. The right hand reception room has a jib door that opens into a back hall leading to the back stairs to the basement. The back hall is also accessed via a door from the entrance hall. This would enable a servant working in the basement to come quickly to a visitor waiting at the front door.
Lincoln House entrance hall.
Ground floor right hand panelled reception room.
Jib door set into panelling of right hand reception
room.
Ground floor left hand panelled reception room.
Another Lincoln House: stairs in entrance hall.
Another Lincoln House: right hand panelled reception room
A Lincoln House left hand panelled reception room with optional Phoenix
Model Development glowing hearth installed.
View from left hand reception room across
entrance hall.
Lincoln House: general view of ground floor.
First Floor
The first floor of Lincoln House consists of a morning room and a master bedroom set either side of the galleried first floor landing. A door leads from the back of the first floor landing to a cupboard staircase that leads to the second floor. The cupboard staircase is complete and has winding steps visible through its door at the bottom.
First floor morning room.
First floor galleried landing behind the Venetian window.
Winding cupboard stairs through door off first floor
landing.
Another view of galleried first floor landing.
First floor right hand bedroom.
View through first floor right hand bedroom door
to landing.
Stain-varnished door in fancy door case.
Another Lincoln House: first floor landing.
Another Lincoln House: first floor landing with door to winding cupboard
stairs to second floor open.
Second Floor
The second floor of Lincoln House has a galleried landing with doors leading to a bedroom, a nursery and a dressing room that connects to a second bedroom. An opening side panel provides access and light to the second floor dressing room. Intriguing views are available acroos the back of the house from the opened side panel through the door of the dressing room, through the galleried second floor landing to the bedroom beyond.
Side panel opened to reveal dressing room.
Side panel opened to reveal dressing room and vista across the back of the
house through the top landing to the bedroom beyond.
Close-up view through dressing room door across
the top landing to the bedroom beyond.
Left hand second floor bedroom with door through to dressing room.
General view of left hand of second floor.
Left hand second floor bedroom with dressing room behind visible through
open door.
Second floor middle bedroom with landing light visible through open door.
View of landing through door of second floor right
hand bedroom.
Second floor right hand bedroom.
Stairs
The main stairs in Lincoln House have stringers and separate stain-varnished treads and stair brackets. Even the cupboard stairs to the second floor have winding steps and have a galleried landing. The dolls (not included) by Patricia Hirons give a sense of scale.
Servants' steps down to
area.
Stairs from servants' hall to ground floor. (Doll by Patricia Hirons not
included).
Lower flight of main staircase seen in entrance
hallway. Note stringer, bullnose bottom step and
stair brackets.
Lincoln House main staircase.
Another Lincoln House: main staircase in grey.
Lincoln House: general view of main staircase.
Bottom of main staircase. Doll by Patricia Hirons
not included.
Lighting
From Autumn 2011 all fully decorated Anglia Dolls Houses include a package of lights as standard with a quality Smallworld digital transformer and Easy Wire fused distribution strip. If you prefer to specify your own choice of lights I can build these in for you. Wiring is concealed behind a false back panel, under lift up floorboards and also down the chimney breasts. The way that the wiring is done makes it easy for you to add further lights at a future date. See the Electric Lighting Datasheet for more details of the standard package of lights included with this house if purchased fully finished.
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