PRN 36760 In March 1890, the Grantham Board of Guardians decided that a new workhouse was needed. A competition was announced the following month for plans for a building to accommodate 200 inmates at 10½ acre site on the south side of Dysart Road to the west of the town. The new Workhouse erected in 1891-92 from designs by Valentine Green, architect at a total cost of £23,000. The buildings had a front elevation of 500 feet, and made of rubble, Ancaster stone and brick, and included a water tower on the south side about 60 feet high. The Tramp wards faced Dysart Road with a frontage of 224 feet. The wards were arranged on the pavilion system consisting of seven blocks separated by covered corridors on the ground floor. A space of 50 feet intervened between each block. The departments on each side of the central administrative block were two storeys in height and concreted on the upper floor by an over head air gangway. The Infirmary was made of stone 168 feet long and two storeys in height. The workhouse later became Hill View Hospital. Most of the buildings were demolished in the late 1960s. The water tower survived until 1975.{1}