Westholme House
Westholme House | ||
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OS grid reference TF 06477 45920 | | |
Built | c. 1849 | |
Listed Building – Grade II | ||
Official name | Westholme[1] | |
Designated | 14 November 1974[1] | |
Reference no. | 1062153 | |
Westholme House is a historic building in the English market town of Sleaford in Lincolnshire, set in 32 acres of parkland and school grounds.[2] Built around 1849 in the style of a French Gothic mansion by Charles Kirk for his business partner Thomas Parry, it was privately owned until the 1940s, when Kesteven County Council acquired the house and its grounds. It subsequently served as the county library and part of Sleaford Secondary Modern School (later St George's Academy). The stone house follows an asymmetrical layout and incorporates a range of Gothic elements in its design. In 1974, it was recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building, recognising it as of "special interest".[3]
History
Prior to the
Private ownership
Thomas Parry (1818−1879), an architect, builder and future Member of Parliament for Boston, had purchased the estate by 1846;[8][n 1] he employed his business partner and brother-in-law, Charles Kirk the younger, to design Westholme House on the site for him; their firm Kirk and Parry completed the mansion around 1849.[1][10][11][12] Parry moved in with his wife, mother and sister, and employed two servants; by 1871, two domestic workers had been added to his household.[13] Parry died in 1879 followed by his wife, Henrietta, in 1882.[14][15]
Henry Peake (1821–1886)
Public ownership
Westholme was occupied by the military during the
Earlier post-war plans had envisaged a separate secondary modern for girls being built on the site and Kesteven and Sleaford High School being rebuilt there,[41][42] but in 1957 the County Council proposed building a new mixed secondary modern at Westholme instead.[43] By 1960, Sleaford Secondary Modern School was operating there alongside its original buildings on Church Lane.[44][45] In 1983, an extension to the Westholme block opened, allowing the school to close the old site; new teaching blocks were then built around the grounds. The school changed its name to St George's School in 1984, became a technology college in 1992 and converted to St George's Academy in 2010.[46][47] The house continued to be used as a library into the 1980s, but by the next decade, had become the school's sixth form base and an adult education centre.[48][49] As a result of major rebuilding work at St George's in 2011–12, a new sixth form centre opened and Westholme House was converted into the school's administrative centre.[50]
Architecture
Charles Kirk and Thomas Parry were builders and architects in Sleaford; their company prospered in the mid-19th century and was responsible for a number of civic, religious and corporate buildings in the town, including the gas works, Carre's Grammar School and Carre's Hospital.[12] Westholme has been called their "most cheerfully inventive" building;[48] built in the style of a Gothic château, Pevsner described the mansion as "an ebullient essay in French [15th century] domestic Gothic."[11]
The two-storey house is built in coursed stone with steep, Welsh slate roofing.
The site also houses a Gothic stable-block, which Sir Nikolaus Pevsner considered "charming", and two Tudor-style lodges.[11] These outbuildings incorporate medieval stone fragments probably retained by Kirk during church restorations.[10] A stretch of wall in the grounds is 100m long and made up of stone fragments, many Gothic, which were also most likely taken from church restorations conducted by Kirk and Parry.[11]
See also
References
- Notes
- Citations
- ^ a b c d e Historic England. "Westholme (1062153)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 14 December 2014.
- ^ "Home", St George's College of Technology, as archived at the Internet Archive on 16 December 2009.
- ^ "Listed Buildings", Historic England. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
- ^ Mellor 2007, figure 5. The map was drawn in c. 1766 by W. Fillingham for Lord Bristol.
- ^ Pawley 1996, p. 53, for origin of the name.
- ^ Pawley 1996, p. 64
- ^ Pawley 1996, p. 68, showing an enclosure map of 1794, belonging to the Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmund's Branch; catalogued as HA 507/3/208.
- ^ Sleaford Town Historic Buildings (Sleaford and District Civic Trust, 2009), p. 2. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
- ^ Sleaford Town Historic Buildings (Sleaford and District Civic Trust, 2009), p. 7. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
- ^ a b Cramp, Everson & Stocker 1999, p. 2
- ^ a b c d e Pevsner, Harris & Antram 2002, p. 655
- ^ a b "Journal and Account Book of Charles Kirk, of Sleaford, builder and architect (ref. name MISC DON 1015)", Lincs to the Past (Lincolnshire Archives). Retrieved 14 December 2014.
- ^ Ellis 1981, p. 22
- ^ "Death of Mr. Thomas Parry". Derby Daily Telegraph. 24 December 1879. p. 3. Retrieved 15 April 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Deaths". London Standard. 14 February 1882. p. 1. Retrieved 15 April 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ a b "H. Peake, Esq". Law Times. Vol. 81. 17 July 1886. p. 217.
- ^ Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire. 1885. p. 628
- ^ a b Lincolnshire Archives Committee 1967, p. 41
- ^ a b Walford 1919, p. 1047
- ^ Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire. 1889. p. 397
- ^ Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire. 1896. p. 470
- ^ Ruvigny 1916a, p. 283 and Ruvigny 1916b, p. 246. The sons were Gerald Cecil Wyatt Peake (died 1915), Henry Arthur Wyatt Peake (died 1915) and Kenneth John Wyatt Peake (died 1916).
- ^ Pawley 1996, p. 123
- ^ "Death of Mr. H. A. Peake". Grantham Journal. 3 February 1923. p. 2. Retrieved 15 April 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Formerly of Sleaford". Lincolnshire Echo. 30 January 1933. p. 2. Retrieved 15 April 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ ‘Pattinson, Samuel’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014
- ^ "Personals: To be Married". Flight. 4 December 1924. p. 780. Retrieved 15 April 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Death of Ex-Horncastle M.P.'s Wife". Lincolnshire Echo. 5 November 1942. p. 6. Retrieved 15 April 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Sales by Auction". Lincolnshire Echo. 8 July 1944. p. 2. Retrieved 15 April 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ a b c "War Department Claim". Sleaford Gazette. 21 February 1947. p. 1.
- ^ "Items from Committees' Reports". Sleaford Gazette. 2 March 1945. p. 1.
- ^ "Secondary Education in the Sleaford District". Sleaford Gazette. 16 August 1946.
- ^ Northern Regional Library System: Handbook, 1949, p. 19
- ^ "Primary and Secondary Education". Sleaford Gazette. 16 May 1947.
- ^ a b "Purchase of Westholme hutting for £450". Sleaford Gazette. 15 August 1947.
- ^ Sleaford Gazette, 12 November 1948, p. 3.
- ^ Anon., "Passing Parade", Sleaford Gazette, 12 December 1952, p. 4.
- ^ "Metalwork Exhibition", Sleaford Gazette, 26 February 1954, p. 3.
- ^ "Housecraft Project at School: Pupils Have Decorated Their Own Flat", Sleaford Gazette, 6 July 1956, p. 8.
- ^ "Sports Views", Sleaford Gazette, 3 July 1959, p. 7.
- ^ "Primary and secondary education". Sleaford Gazette. 16 May 1947.
- ^ "Kesteven's education plan will cost £3,125,013". Lincolnshire Echo. 14 May 1947. p. 5. Retrieved 31 March 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "New mixed secondary modern school for Westholme site?". Sleaford Gazette. 19 April 1957. p. 1.
- ^ "New Mixed Secondary Modern School for Westholme Site?". Sleaford Gazette. 19 April 1957. p. 1.
- ^ "Sleaford County Secondary School", 1960, B/W silent film on 16mm film (23 mins). Preserved at the Lincolnshire Film Archive, no. 495.
- ^ "Brief History", St. George's College of Technology, as archived at the Internet Archive on 11 December 2009.
- ^ Ofsted 2012, p. 3
- ^ a b Lloyd 1983, p. 57
- ^ "Reference Name LCL24620", Lincs to the Past (Lincolnshire Archives). Retrieved 1 April 2015.
- ^ "Diggers move in to start work on £20M Academy". St George's Academy. 19 April 2011. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
- ^ See photograph at "Reference Name MLL4285", Lincs to the Past (Lincolnshire Archives). Retrieved 1 April 2015.
- ^ See photograph at "Reference Name LCL24620", Lincs to the Past (Lincolnshire Archives). Retrieved 1 April 2015.
- Bibliography
- Cramp, Rosemary; Everson, Paul; Stocker, David (1999), Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture in England, vol. 5, Oxford: ISBN 9780197261880
- Ellis, Charles, ed. (1981), Mid-Victorian Sleaford: 1851–1871, Lincoln: Lincolnshire Library Service, ISBN 9780861111022
- Lincolnshire Archives Committee (1967), Archivists' Report (PDF), vol. 18, Lincoln: Lincolnshire Archives Committee
- Lloyd, Michael (1983), Portrait of Lincolnshire, London: R. Hale, ISBN 9780709008460
- Ofsted (2012), St George's Academy: Inspection Report (PDF), London: Ofsted
- Mellor, Vicky (2007), Building Survey at an Outbuilding at 12 Boston Road Sleaford Lincolnshire (SLBR06) (PDF), Heckington, Lincolnshire: Archaeological Project Services
- Pawley, Simon (1996), The Book of Sleaford, Baron Birch for Quotes Ltd., ISBN 9780860235590
- ISBN 9780300096200
- Ruvigny, Marquis de (1916a), The Roll of Honour, vol. 1, London: The Standard Art Book Company Ltd.
- Ruvigny, Marquis de (1916b), The Roll of Honour, vol. 2, London: The Standard Art Book Company Ltd.
- Walford, Edward (1919), Walford's County Families of the United Kingdom, London: R. Hardwicke
External links
- Media related to Westholme House at Wikimedia Commons
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