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Market Place, SLEAFORD, NG34 0SE

An imposing building on the west side of the market place is the former Whipping Post public house, named after a relic of past punishment now on show in the village church. In 2003, the old hostelry was bought by a couple who turned it into a centre for making chocolates with a visitor centre and shop.

Terrace of fine Georgian houses on the west side of the Square.

Grade II Listed 17th century house with 18th and 19th century alterations. One occupant was Cuthbert Edward Bradley (1861-1941) who married Lucy Elizabeth Heathcote (1862-1939) in September 1895, probably when he moved to The Lodge as in the 1891 census he lives with his mother at the 'Elms'. A Christmas card from the Bradley family at The Lodge survives from 1910. Cuthbert's son Rifleman John Henry Heathcote Bradley is included in the roll of Honour having been in the 7th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment, he died on 21st November 1918, aged 19 years. Cuthbert was a self-taught artist and illustrator particularly noted for his hounds. He was also a sporting journalist for The Field and other publications, and an author. He contributed six cartoons to ‘Vanity Fair’.

This highly regarded teashop, at time of the photograph, had a notice in the window that said it was closed until further notice and as can be seen is up for sale. Quaintways website is also down. Formerly a house and shop it is 18th century Grade II Listed, retaining the 18th century shop front. I don't know if it was built by him but it was formerly the premises of Josiah Stredder (1731-1819) and his son Josiah (1756-1827) who were bakers here from 1759 until about 1820. It next became the home for over a century of the blacksmith with the fitting surname Hammer, Ishmael (d.1855); his sons Jeremiah (d.1888), Frederick (d.1909) and William (d.1926), who made the churchyard gates in 1897. Quaintways proprietors, Irene and John Batt, came in 1983.

Trees in blossom on the central green; the Square is flanked by some magnificent Georgian buildings. The A15 passes through the village. The village is named in the Domesday Book.

The building in the centre of the picture dates from the late eighteenth century https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165421