Racecourse Grandstand

RACECOURSE GRANDSTAND, SAXILBY ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1388754
Date first listed:
08-Jul-1991
List Entry Name:
Racecourse Grandstand
Statutory Address:
RACECOURSE GRANDSTAND, SAXILBY ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1388754
Date first listed:
08-Jul-1991
List Entry Name:
Racecourse Grandstand
Statutory Address 1:
RACECOURSE GRANDSTAND, SAXILBY ROAD

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:
RACECOURSE GRANDSTAND, SAXILBY ROAD

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

County:
Lincolnshire
District:
Lincoln (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SK 95914 71842

Details

LINCOLN

SK97SE SAXILBY ROAD
1941-1/2/324 (South West side)
08/07/91 Racecourse Grandstand

II

Racecourse grandstand and community centre. 1897, with late
C20 alterations. Designed by W Mortimer & Son, built by W
Wright. Gault brick, with red brick dressings, stone and
cast-iron piers, hipped and gabled corrugated iron roofs with
valances. 2 storeys, 12 bays. Open front has wood and concrete
terraces and coped brick end walls. Iron piers have scroll
brackets. To the right, a half-round gable with the Royal
arms, flanked by single triangular gables, all with
bargeboards. Rear has an off-centre gabled wing with
bargeboards and a side wall stack. Single storey projection
with wavy coped parapet and gable over a central window. To
the left, a hipped wing, 2 storeys. Between the wings, 3 round
headed openings with keystones, with C20 glazed screens and
doors.
This building is still used occasionally as a grandstand.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 509).




Listing NGR: SK9591471842

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Legacy System number:
486215
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 509

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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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