5, SOUTH SQUARE

5, SOUTH SQUARE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1388991
Date first listed:
27-May-1949
List Entry Name:
5, SOUTH SQUARE
Statutory Address:
5, SOUTH SQUARE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1388991
Date first listed:
27-May-1949
Date of most recent amendment:
15-Nov-1999
List Entry Name:
5, SOUTH SQUARE
Statutory Address 1:
5, SOUTH SQUARE

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
5, SOUTH SQUARE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Lincolnshire
District:
Boston (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TF 32854 43803

Details

BOSTON

TF3243NE SOUTH SQUARE
716-1/10/162 (East side)
27/05/49 No.5
(Formerly Listed as:
SOUTH SQUARE
(East side)
No.5
(Lindum House))

GV II*

House, now offices. Mid C17, altered C19. Painted render with
rusticated painted stone quoins, plinth and 1st floor band.
Slate roofs, hipped to right. C19 gable and wall stacks in
Gault brick. Parallel range plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attics, 5-bay front with dentilled
stone cornice, plain parapet, stone coped. Central 6-panel
door, with bordered overlight with glazed lamps. Set in
panelled doorcase, with plain frieze and moulded cornice, with
Roman Doric half-columns. Flanked by pairs of plain sashes. To
1st floor 5 small glazing bar sashes. Windows have flat heads,
those to ground floor with keystones. In the roof 3 glazing
bar sash dormers with lead segmental heads.
INTERIOR: retains some panelling and decorated plaster ceiling
to left-hand front room.



Listing NGR: TF3285443803

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
486453
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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