Gonerby House is a Grade II listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 April 1972. A Jacobean Hostel. 2 related planning applications.
Gonerby House
- WRENN ID
- waiting-roof-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Kesteven
- Constituency
- Grantham and Bourne MP: Gareth Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 April 1972
- Type
- Hostel
- Address
- Gonerby House, Gonerby Road, Grantham
- OS grid reference
- SK 906 372
- Coordinates
- 52.92529, -0.65299
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gonerby House is a building located on Gonerby Road, originally serving as a hostel for Stoke Rochford Training College. The garden front features Jacobean architecture, complemented by Victorian wings and a Georgian stable block. The Jacobean section is constructed of brick and stands two stories tall with seven windows. It includes a stone band, an eaves cornice, and a balustrade, along with a stone band beneath the first-floor windows. The window arrangement is three-ones-three, with flush-framed windows that do not have original glazing bars. The ground floor windows feature a brick flat arch and are grouped in threes on each side. A stone plinth is present, and the center of the facade breaks forward, with the first-floor window flanked by flush-framed brick recesses. There is a modern French window with a broken pediment on the ground floor. The Victorian wings on either side have slate hipped roofs, with the right wing featuring a rectangular bow that extends through two stories and has a string course between.
The interior was completely remodeled in 1937 but retains some original features, including doorways and the original cellars. A wooden staircase with iron gates, likely from the 18th century, was salvaged from a demolished house. In the same room, there is a fire basket with a decorated iron back dated 1724, although it is likely from a different house.
Local climate
Gonerby House 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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