More information : Spilsby Union Workhouse was erected in 1837 to the designs of Gerge Gilbert Scott in the neighbouring settlement of Hundleby. Only the centre of the main building survives. An infirmary and workshops were located to the rear. Additions were made to the workhouse in 1878. In 1885 tenders new washhouses, a laundry and infirm wards were accepted to the design of J Edwin Butcher.
The red brick hub of the workhouse is two-storey with a flat roof, but originally would have had three-storeys and a pitched roof. The kitchen was at the rear of the structure. The infirmary is rendered with a pantiled roof. It has a three-storey centre flanked by two storey wings of six bays. A mortuary with later additions is probably the single-storeyed structure to the south-east of the structure.
The surviving workhouse structure is now part of The Gables Hospital. (1-2)
The Spilsby Poor Law Union group of parishes had a workhouse, built in 1838, located in Hundleby. Records indicate that in 1870 the workhouse housed 280 residents. The workhouse was later converted into The Gables Hospital and in recent years has been demolished for the building of new housing. (3)
Photograph of the demolished workhouse and The Gables Hospital. (4)
The Gables Hospital was demolished in 1948. (5) |