The development consists of 34 one and two-bedroom flats with communal facilities and was completed in 1990.

Winterburn Gardens is situated close to local shops in Whetstone to the south of Leicester city centre. 

Whetstone is mentioned in Domesday as Westham and had a mill. Today it is a large village five miles to the north of Leicester and became well known as the site of Frank Whittle's factory where jet engines were first developed.

Whetstone is about five miles south of Leicester and just north of Blaby. Lutterworth to the south is about 10 miles and Wigston three miles. Junction 21 of the M1 is less than two miles.