PRN 36759 The first Grantham Union workhouse was built in 1837 to the south-west of the town, to the west of the railway station. It was designed to accommodate 300 people and the Poor Law Commissioners authorized an expenditure of £6,000 for its construction. The architect was Sampson Kempthorne and the workhouse was based on his popular hexagonal or "Y-plan" design. It comprised an entrance and administration block at the north-west, behind which three accommodation blocks radiated from a central supervisory hub. There was a fever block at the north of the site and separate infirmary was erected to the south. A new (replacement) workhouse was built in 1891 on Dysart Road (PRN 36760). The old Workhouse which immediately adjoined the Great Northern Railway Station had been sold to that company for £13,500.{1} The Union Workhouse is at Spittlegate, on the western side of Grantham, & was built at the cost of £4500. It has room for 250 paupers. It had 125 inmates in 1841, & 198 in 1851, when the census was taken. The total expenditure of the union for the year ending September 1855, was £8612.15s.3d. {2} The building appears on the Second Edition Ordnance Survey map of 1905.{3} The building was probably demolished sometime after 1905, prior to expansion of the railway station. The building has gone by 1956 as it does not appear on the OS map of this time. {4}