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Sands Residential Care Home - a short report.
The Sands Residential care home was boarded up in May 2007 when it closed. More informally known by residents as 'the blot on the landscape' it consists of Regency period buildings built around 1830 which were grade 2 listed in May 1986. At that time the listing tells us Number 5 was a care home for blind eldery persons, number 6 and number 7 had three flats each.
At some time the care home expanded to take in all of the buildings. The asking price is somewhere around £1m and planning permission for coversion into 12 apartments has been granted.
Google Street View image.
The buildings which are numbers 5,6 & 7 although on Marine Parade opposite the seafront are actually Bath Terrace, no doubt named to be evocative of Bath proper.
Some residence were, Lady Mary Renshaw at number 6, a Mrs Colonel Anderson number 6 during 1870 during which time an Alfred Benson Griffiths Esq. was resident at number 7. Confusingly the internet tells us Instow Private Hotel (c.Clarke prop.) was at number 4 which later became the earliest Sands Residential Home. Perhaps they moved next door?
Plants might come up!
I am afraid there seemed to be no interior access although someone a bit more slim and slippery than I probably would do better. I would be interested to see shots were anybody to do so!
When I saw this I could easily imagine an old chap sitting in the bright May sunshine with a little shade from the Honeysuckle just before the care home closed.
Thanks for looking.
HC
The Sands Residential care home was boarded up in May 2007 when it closed. More informally known by residents as 'the blot on the landscape' it consists of Regency period buildings built around 1830 which were grade 2 listed in May 1986. At that time the listing tells us Number 5 was a care home for blind eldery persons, number 6 and number 7 had three flats each.
At some time the care home expanded to take in all of the buildings. The asking price is somewhere around £1m and planning permission for coversion into 12 apartments has been granted.
Google Street View image.
The buildings which are numbers 5,6 & 7 although on Marine Parade opposite the seafront are actually Bath Terrace, no doubt named to be evocative of Bath proper.
Some residence were, Lady Mary Renshaw at number 6, a Mrs Colonel Anderson number 6 during 1870 during which time an Alfred Benson Griffiths Esq. was resident at number 7. Confusingly the internet tells us Instow Private Hotel (c.Clarke prop.) was at number 4 which later became the earliest Sands Residential Home. Perhaps they moved next door?
Plants might come up!
I am afraid there seemed to be no interior access although someone a bit more slim and slippery than I probably would do better. I would be interested to see shots were anybody to do so!
When I saw this I could easily imagine an old chap sitting in the bright May sunshine with a little shade from the Honeysuckle just before the care home closed.
Thanks for looking.
HC