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Northgate, SLEAFORD, NG34 7BS

Mid nineteenth century cottages. https://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101360428-51-and-53-northgate-sleaford#.Wez3JIhrzVI

Heading north.

Two Grade II Listed mid 19th century Gothic style cottages.

Sleaford's "Community Fire Station" on Church Lane can be seen here near the north-east corner of the site occupied by the Northgate Almshouses. This almshouse building was constructed in 1857 as an addition to the Carre’s Hospital Almshouses in Eastgate. Church Lane passes the front of the fire station and forms a 'c' shaped arc around the back of the almshouses before it rejoins North Gate half a mile further on towards the town centre. The principal road at this junction is the B1518.

Carre's Grammar School is located here between Church Lane and Mill Field Terrace.

Two buildings on the east side of Northgate in the Galley Hill area, with the B1518 beginning to descend towards the town centre on the right of the picture. The side road is Church Lane, which very quickly curves to form an arc round the back of these buildings and rejoins North Gate half a mile further on towards the town centre. The larger building constitutes the Northgate Almshouses built in 1857 as an addition to the Carre’s Hospital Almshouses in Eastgate. The smaller building - part of the same development - bears a stone inscription declaring it to be a "Savings Bank".

The building on left sits in the south-west corner of a site on the east side of North Gate that is occupied - for the most part - by the Northgate Almshouses. These were built in 1857 as an addition to the Carre’s Hospital Almshouses in Eastgate. However, the converted building ahead, with the Carre family crest on its chimney stack, bears a stone inscription on its road-facing elevation declaring it to be a "Savings Bank". It is now a residential property. The road here is the B1518, as it begins its descent towards the town centre.

A view along the east side of North Gate. This is a section of North Gate - i.e. the B1518 - furthest from the town centre. The street lamp marks its junction with Church Lane, in which the town's Fire Station is situated. Beyond the lamp and facing this 'main' road are the Northgate Almshouses. The buildings on the left form part of the Grade II-listed Carre's Grammar School. As a result of the gradual development of the school site over several hundred years a number of buildings in differing architectural styles can be seen fronting different sections of North Gate. The school was founded in 1604 as the result of a bequest by Robert Carre, of Aswarby, to provide for the education of local boys. It seems that the school went into a period of decline, effectively closing in 1816. However, a group of trustees purchased land in 1826 and secured funding in 1830 for the construction of new buildings and it reopened in 1835. Further extensions were added in the 1900s and these were added to in the 1940s and 1950s. The school became grant-maintained in 1991. It received Specialist Sports College status in 2003, Science specialist status in 2009 and it became an Academy in 2011.