Gosberton House Care Home

Gosberton House Care Home, 11 Westhorpe Road, Gosberton, Spalding, PE11 4EW

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1064426
Date first listed:
07-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:
Gosberton House Care Home
Statutory Address:
Gosberton House Care Home, 11 Westhorpe Road, Gosberton, Spalding, PE11 4EW
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1064426
Date first listed:
07-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:
Gosberton House Care Home
Statutory Address 1:
Gosberton House Care Home, 11 Westhorpe Road, Gosberton, Spalding, PE11 4EW

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

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:
Gosberton House Care Home, 11 Westhorpe Road, Gosberton, Spalding, PE11 4EW

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

County:
Lincolnshire
District:
South Holland (District Authority)
Parish:
Gosberton
National Grid Reference:
TF2369231765

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14 November 2022 to amend the name and address, and reformat the text to current standards

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

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
198182
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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