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May 2009 - The site of the former London Drugs is developing quickly now. The three new buildings will house shops near the Burger King.
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Navigation House, Carre Street, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, 1838-39.
Grade II Listed.
The Sleaford Navigation Company’s decision to install a weighbridge and build an associated 'hut' coincided with a rise in its prosperity. Consequently, the company resolved to erect a building that befitted its status. Thus Navigation House was built in 1839, consisting of an office for the clerk with the weighing machine in it, a Committee Room for meetings and two upstairs living rooms for the clerk. After the company was wound up in 1878 the house continued as a dwelling until the 1950s when it gradually fell into disrepair. There was an attempt in the early 1970s to demolish it and this led to the formation of the Sleaford Navigation Society whose aim was to preserve the house. It was saved from demolition although no funds were available for the necessary restoration work. Shortly after 1999, when the building was in an even worse state of repair, money was finally secured to renovate it and in 2005 it was reopened to the public as a Visitor Centre with particular emphasis on the Sleaford Navigation.
The building is probably unique in being the only example of specially built Company Offices to exist on a rural waterway.
Cabinet War Rooms, More details on Wcities.com. As the outbreak of war became ever more likely at the end of the 1930s, this maze of interlocking rooms and tunnels was constructed under civil service buildings close to the Houses of Parliament at Westminster. The purpose was to provide safe haven to government officials in the event of Nazi air raids. Thus, a sick room, dormitories, a refectory and even a shooting gallery were built. Some say that a tunnel was even dug from here to Buckingham Palace so the Royal Family could make their escape if invasion was ever to occur. Winston Churchill held vital cabinet meetings and orchestrated military operations here throughout the war years, and in the Map Room you can trace the actual position of allied forces as they triumphed on VJ Day in 1945. Immaculately preserved, the Cabinet War Rooms convey the claustrophobic and perilous atmosphere of wartime, and give a fascinating insight into the workings of the war machine. The rooms remain closed on the 24th, 25th and 26th of December.
North Steading and Dairy Cottage, Torlundy
NN 1438 7705
The other group of buildings West of these (Torlundy Courtyard) is visible on the 1870 map but this group not there though on 1900 map.
The building is configured as a New England Connected Farmhouse. It is located on the far western edge of the zone in which these types of building complexes were constructed in the 1850s so it is a regionally appropriate. The white part dates from about 1815. For more info on Connected Farmhouses see "Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England," by Thomas Hubka.