Listed Building: Gosberton House Care Home (1064426)

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Grade II
Authority Department of the Environment
Date assigned 07 February 1967
Date last amended 14 November 2022

Description

TF 23 SW 4/68 GOSBERTON WESTHORPE ROAD (north side) No 11 (Gosberton House Care Home) (Formerly listed as Gosberton House School) 7.2.67 G.V. II Former small country house, special school at time of listing. Built 1826 for Mrs Jane Smith, extended 1956. Red brick in Flemish bond, painted ashlar dressings hipped Westmorland slate roof with lead dressings,wooden cupola bellcote and weather vane, brick wall stacks. Three storey, five bay front with slightly advanced and pedimented central bay. Rendered plinth, first floor cill band, bracketed eaves cornice. Central six panel door up four semi-circular steps, with traceried overlight. Semi-circular portico, supported on delicate fluted columns, with balustraded top, flanked by pairs of glazing bar sashes. To first floor five similar windows. To second floor five smaller windows. All windows have splayed flat rubbed brick arches, with painted ashlar keystones. On the centre of the roof an open bellcote with ogee lead roof. Interior has dado rails, some fluted architraves, semi-circular arches and a stick baluster stair. Listing NGR: TF2369231765

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Sources (2)

  •  Index: Department of the Environment. 1988. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. 4/68.
  •  Website: Historic England (formerly English Heritage). 2011->. The National Heritage List for England. http://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/. 1064426.

Map

Location

Grid reference TF 23692 31765 (point)
Map sheet TF23SW
Civil Parish GOSBERTON, SOUTH HOLLAND, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Record last edited

Nov 14 2022 3:29PM

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