Industrial site containing laboratories on the site of the former union workhouse. The workhouse was constructed in 1839-40 at a cost of £8000. The cruciform layout was unusual and did not conform to other popular designs of the age. It was put up for sale in 1901 after new premises were constructed in Springwell Lane, Balby. With the proximity of the railway, GNER bought the buildings and used them for storage. They were demolished in the 1960s. Prior to this, the area probably consisted of strip fields consolidated from the furlongs of open fields. Legibility of the former character is invisible.