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Date of photo: 2016	Picture © Jo Turner
The Green Dragon was situated on Waterside North. This grade-II listed building took on the Green Dragon name and licence following the demolition in 1956 of the original pub next door. This grade-II listed pub, in turn, closed in 2016.
Grade II Listed as 16th century but much restored and extended. The plot was known as Tower Garth and medieval defences stood here in the form of a round tower at the southern end of a wall. It seems to have been in ruinous state from the 16th to the 18th century, and is reported to have been still standing in 1758 in the yard of what is now the Green Dragon Inn. The original Green Dragon was a brick building (partly rebuilt 1863) east of the current building apparently licensed in or before 1735 to Thomas Bateman. Reputedly in 1737 the landlord was arrested for holding goods stolen by Dick Turpin. This building was removed in 1956 to accommodate the widening of Broadgate for the new Pelham Bridge and the present pub was created then from the restored Great Garettes. The existing building, probably a merchants house, possibly on the site of the wool staple that had stood up until the 14th century, was referred to as the Great Garettes by 1624. Thomas Grantham sold it in 1569 to the Common Council. In 1589 it had six tenants and the second floor was added by Hugh Moxon. Restored in 1913, apart from the timbers, a much more comprehensive restoration took place in 1955-7, architects Watkins Coombes and Partners, builders Lucas for the new pub. Other tenants/landlords listed include; 1807 Thomas Cooling, 1826 Mr Stephenson; 1826-1831 Richard Kirk (the pub was then owned by John Winn and there was a brewhouse and stabling for 25-30 horses); 1831 George Cropper; 1833-1834 John Casson whenit was described as with very superior Brewhouse and Vessels, capital Stables, excellent Cellars, large Dining and Tradesman's Room, numerous Bed-rooms, Dram Shop (18th Century term for a place that sold gin by the spoonful), Malt Chamber, Piggeries, &c; 1835 W Gresham; 1842 Thomas Grawcock; 1849 E Tooley; 1850 Elizabeth Tooley; 1851 T S Reed; 1854-1870 James Budd; 1872-1875 Edward Bryan; 1876 Samuel Goodin; 1877 William Holmes; 1881 James Johnson; 1891-1900 Robert Reed, who advertised an aquarium at the pub "Birds, Beasts. Reptiles, and Monstrosities, be seen alive". 1901-1926 Frederick Taylor; 1930 Frank Pattison; 1946 Harry Wood; 1965 it is just listed in Broadgate as ‘Green Dragon (The)’. In September 2012 it was run by the Lemon Day Pub Company. Owned by the Lincolnshire Co-op and run by Innovation Pub Group it ceased all trading on Monday, July 18, 2016 claiming that “rising costs” and the “inflexibility of the pub’s landlords”, were the reasons behind the closure. The 3,121 sq ft three-storey building was still up for lease throughout 2021.
Steve Turner (January 2022)
Listed building details:
Public house. C16, restored and with additions, 1959. Timber box framing with large arch braces and plastered nogging, brick, and C20 rockfaced stone underbuild. Plain tile roofs. Single external stone side wall stack, C20, and single valley stack. 3 storeys, 4 bays. South front has 2 jettied floors, topped with 4 gables. Central 2-leaf door flanked by 2 leaded casements with wooden mullions, all C20. Above, 4 renewed square wooden oriel windows with 3-light casements. Above again, four 2-light leaded casements. West front, to Thorngate, 3 bays, has 3 leaded casements on each floor. East side, to Broadgate, all C20, has a sham timber framed bay to right. Interior has jowled posts with struts, stud partition walls, and arch braced crown post roofs with collars and spine beams. Much of the timber structure has been renewed.
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Name Dates Comments Peter Crouch late 1970s/1980s One of Lincoln's famous watering holes and on the Lincoln circuit in the 1970's and 1980's. The manager was Jack Stone, a fabulous character who didn't stand for any messing about! Probably part of Imperial Inns and Taverns at this time, a managed sector of John Smith's Brewery. Upstairs was a fairly formal restaurant, ground floor was more pub / locals and beneath this another bar which always seemed to struggle for business.
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Date of photo: 2011	© Copyright Richard Croft and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence