CARRE'S HOSPITAl, PUMP AND SUNDIAL IN THE FORECOURT AND WALL ALONG CARRE STREET

CARRE'S HOSPITAL, PUMP AND SUNDIAL IN THE FORECOURT AND WALL ALONG CARRE STREET, BEDE HOUSE, EASTGATE, SLEAFORD, NG34 7DQ

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1062145
Date first listed:
16-Jul-1949
List Entry Name:
CARRE'S HOSPITAl, PUMP AND SUNDIAL IN THE FORECOURT AND WALL ALONG CARRE STREET
Statutory Address:
CARRE'S HOSPITAL, PUMP AND SUNDIAL IN THE FORECOURT AND WALL ALONG CARRE STREET, BEDE HOUSE, EASTGATE, SLEAFORD, NG34 7DQ
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1062145
Date first listed:
16-Jul-1949
List Entry Name:
CARRE'S HOSPITAl, PUMP AND SUNDIAL IN THE FORECOURT AND WALL ALONG CARRE STREET
Statutory Address 1:
CARRE'S HOSPITAL, PUMP AND SUNDIAL IN THE FORECOURT AND WALL ALONG CARRE STREET, BEDE HOUSE, EASTGATE, SLEAFORD, NG34 7DQ

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CARRE'S HOSPITAL, PUMP AND SUNDIAL IN THE FORECOURT AND WALL ALONG CARRE STREET, BEDE HOUSE, EASTGATE, SLEAFORD, NG34 7DQ

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Lincolnshire
District:
North Kesteven (District Authority)
Parish:
Sleaford
National Grid Reference:
TF 06917 45851

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21/03/2017

TF 0645 1/11

EASTGATE (Southside)
Bede House
Carre's Hospital Pump and Sundial in the Forecourt and wall along Carre Street

(Formerly listed as Carre's Hospital (also known as The Bede Houses) Pump and Sun-dial in the Forecourt and wall along Carre Street)

16.7.49


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II*
Architect, H E Kendall. Nine bay east range of 1830. Seven bay south range of 1841-6. On site of the house of the Carre family. L-plan. Range of early C19 almshouses in ashlar. Good 'Gothick" design of two storeys, five projecting porches with four-centred entrance arches and corner buttresses. Three windows to each section with two-light mullion windows to sides and labels to centre windows. Centre of south range has gable-ended chapel with crocketed pinnacles and traceried 'Perpendicular' pinnacles and traceried 'Perpendicular' window, over door in rectangular frame. Slate roofs and embattled parapet. Garden in front with pump and sundial and a paved walk beside street. Stone wall to right. Old gas lamp standard. Railings to wall have gone.

Carre's Hospital and Nos 2-8 (even)form a group

Listing NGR: TF0691745851

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
191781
Legacy System:
LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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