Description

SE 4245-4345 BOSTON SPA HIGH STREET LS23 (south side)

6/56 No 218A (East Wing), 30.3.66 No 218 (Boston Hall), No 220 (West Wing) and No 222 (Mews Cottage) (formerly listed as No 218 (Boston Hall)

GV II

Large house with service wing; now offices, 2 dwellings and partly unoccupied at time of resurvey (1987). Late C18 and early C19. Coursed squared magnesian limestone, graduated slate roofs. 2-storey-and-attic, 5-bay centre with lower 2-bay side wing set back on left and 3-storey, 2-bay wing set back on right terminating at rear in a lower separately-roofed house (Mews Cottage). Main house (Boston Hall): plinth; central 6-panel door and fanlight with radial glazing bars under archivolt in a Doric, open-pedimented stone doorcase. All other bays have projecting stone sills to sashes with glazing bars under grooved wedge lintels with fluted keystones. Dentilled eaves cornice; shaped kneelers and ashlar gable copings; yellow-brick end stacks. Wing set back on left (East Wing): large projecting lateral stack has to left a panelled door in corniced doorcase beneath blind windows; 6-pane sash to 1st floor on right; stack has yellow brick shaft. Wing set back on right (West Wing): steps across front to panelled door on left having corniced doorcase beneath an unequally-hung, 9-pane sash with flat arch; sashes with glazing bars to ground-floor and 1st-floor right; 6-pane sashes to 2nd floor; hipped right end to roof. Rear: East Wing has margin-glazed French window flanked by tall unequally-hung 15-pane sashes; unequally-hung 9-pane sashes to 1st floor. Right return (Mews Cottage): has 6-panel door and 4-pane overlight in corniced wooden doorcase; 4-pane sashes; hipped roof. Interior: Boston Hall has inner door under fanlight with glazing bars; cantilevered wooden staircase with turned balusters to a wreathed and ramped handrail. Various contemporary fireplaces on 1st floor including one with Delft tiles and another with Neo-Classical panel on wooden surround with drops and small lions' heads.

Listing NGR: SE4325145435

External Links

• Wikidata Q26428439

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)