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Northgate, SLEAFORD, NG34 7BX

This is a small section of a large and complicated collection of Grade II* Listed buildings from 16th century onwards. This north side of courtyard has date 1637 and adjoins the late 19th century part of number 33. Contained in the buildings are a number of 14th century details probably from Sleaford Castle.

On the western side of North Gate, almost opposite where Church Street branches off the B1518, is the former Manor House. This building and courtyard are situated immediately adjacent to it, on its south side. A date stone in the courtyard reads "1637". This particular building and its cobbled yard (and the remainder of "The Manor House" complex too, the latter of which has been divided into several residential properties) is currently in use by a local architect as an office.

Near junction with Church Lane.

On the western side of North Gate, almost opposite where Church Street branches off of this road - the B1518 - is the Manor House. Since (... date unknown) it has been divided into a number of different properties. It originally incorporated not only the older stone-built section but the more distant Georgian extension too, now known as Rhodes House after the entrepreneur and explorer Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902). Rhodes spent parts of his boyhood there. The stone sections of the Manor House are said to be mainly C17th. "Extensive re-use of medieval materials, some of which were probably plundered from Sleaford Castle after it had fallen into disrepair" has been suggested.

Grade II Listed Public house of about 1700 altered about 1860. Its website boasts a jukebox which has every single to appear in the charts in the UK starting from 1952. It possibly became the Marquis of Granby after the circa 1860 alterations as I can’t find it in my directories until 1861. If it was a pub prior to this, it could possibly have been called the Globe (only pub in Northgate 1856) but a number alehouses existed in Northgate prior to this as well. Details from directories include; 1861-1868 John Steel; 1872-1889 William Cocking; 1896 Joseph Bingley; 1901 no name given; 1905 Charles Louis Coxon; 1909-1919 Charles Cupit.

Dates from 1700 but much modified. https://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101062074-the-marquis-of-granby-public-house-and-attached-outbuildings-sleaford#.We0A4YhrzVI This building exhibits well the balance between brick and stone in Sleaford. The town lies on the edge of the Jurassic limestone but clay is also freely available locally.

No, you don't put it in the liquidiser, you take pooch to Sleaford. This is a dog's-eye view of possibly the only dog drinking fountain in existence. Looks like the well's run dry though! Situated outside the Manor House in Northgate, the trough was erected by Mrs Elizabeth Cross who died aged 96 in 1923. Mrs Cross was the widow of Canon Cross, Vicar of Appleby, North Lincolnshire and Prebend of Lincoln Cathedral. Mrs Cross lived in the Manor House after her husband’s death. She was a keen horsewoman and animal lover. In addition to this fountain she had an aviary situated opposite the Manor House which were affixed Coleridge’s words from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: “He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small.” Burns is attributed the words on the trough.

A complicated set of buildings some dating from the sixteenth century but with many later additions and alterations. https://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101168499-manor-house-rhodes-house-wall-and-gate-piers-to-cobbled-yard-and-garden-wall-to-no-33-sleaford#.Wezf-YhrzVI

Grade II listed former public house of c1700 with 19th century additions, now closed.