Racecourse Grandstand is a Grade II listed building in the Lincoln local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1991. Grandstand, community centre.
Racecourse Grandstand
- WRENN ID
- fallen-flue-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lincoln
- Constituency
- Lincoln MP: Mr Hamish Falconer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1991
- Type
- Grandstand, community centre
- Address
- Racecourse Grandstand, Saxilby Road
- OS grid reference
- SK 959 718
- Coordinates
- 53.23498, -0.56445
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Racecourse Grandstand is a grandstand and community centre located on Saxilby Road in Lincoln. It was built in 1897, designed by W Mortimer & Son, and constructed by W Wright. The building features gault brick with red brick dressings, stone and cast-iron piers, and has hipped and gabled corrugated iron roofs with decorative valances. It is two storeys high and consists of 12 bays.
The open front includes wood and concrete terraces with coped brick end walls. The iron piers are adorned with scroll brackets. To the right of the main structure, there is a half-round gable displaying the Royal arms, flanked by two triangular gables, all featuring bargeboards. The rear of the building has an off-centre gabled wing with bargeboards and a side wall stack. There is also a single-storey projection with a wavy coped parapet and a gable above a central window. To the left, a hipped wing rises to two storeys. Between the wings, there are three round-headed openings with keystones, which have been fitted with 20th-century glazed screens and doors.
The Racecourse Grandstand is still used occasionally for its original purpose as a grandstand.
Local climate
Racecourse Grandstand sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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