Shodfriars Hall
SHODFRIARS HALL, 2 AND 4, SOUTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1388998
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Shodfriars Hall
- Statutory Address:
- SHODFRIARS HALL, 2 AND 4, SOUTH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1388998
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Shodfriars Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHODFRIARS HALL, 2 AND 4, SOUTH STREET
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SHODFRIARS HALL, 2 AND 4, SOUTH STREET
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 32858 44000
Details
BOSTON
TF3244SE SOUTH STREET
716-1/7/169 (East side)
20/11/75 Nos.2 AND 4
Shodfriars Hall
GV II*
Guildhall, now shops, offices and entertainments hall. c1400,
C17, restored and extended by Sir George Gilbert Scott 1873.
Timber-framed with lath and plaster nogging, and red brick
with plain tile roofs.
EXTERIOR: main timber-framed facade to South Street, 3 storeys
plus attics, with jettied 1st and 2nd floors. 2 large bays,
each topped by a C19 bargeboarded gable. 2 tall brick ridge
stacks. Ground floor has 8, four-centred arches, 3 to right
form shop, No.2, and 2 to left form shop, No.4, 2 arches
between have studded doors to offices above. Both shops have
central doors flanked by glazing bar shop windows. 1st floor
has arch-braced box framing with plaster panels decorated with
Tudor roses. Each bay has a group of one 3-light and two
4-light wooden traceried mullion windows. Above each bay has a
group of four 3-light similar windows. Above again gables have
diamond brace, decorative framing, with a pair of 3-light
wooden mullion windows each.
The north facade, to Sibsey Lane has a single timber-framed
and jettied bay to the west, with four 4-centred arches with
glazing bar shop windows, above a pair of 4-light wooden
traceried mullion windows, and above again four 3-light
similar windows, above again in the bargeboarded gable with
decorative diamond arch-braced framing and a pair of 3-light
wooden mullioned windows.
The remainder of this facade is brick added in 1873 in the
Gothic Revival style, with 4 bays to the west with a single
4-centred arch doorway and 2 small casements. Above 3 tall
casements and a blind white brick panel each in a chamfered
4-centred arch. Further east, 3 very tall bays topped by a
cross-stepped gable each. The western bay has a shop at ground
floor, and the others have 2 casements, above 3 very tall
pointed arch cross casement windows, each flanked by single
lower, 4-centred arch white brick panels. Beyond to the east a
single bay entrance bay with a single double chamfered
segmental arched entrance, with above 4 white brick panels in
chamfered 4-centred arches.
The south facade, to Shodfriars Lane has 3 bays of arch-braced
and jettied box framing to west, with 6 alternating wide and
narrow 4-centred arches, with glazing bar shop windows and 3
plain arches beyond. Above two 2-light and a single 3-light
traceried wooden mullioned windows. Above again three 3-light
similar windows. Beyond to east, the remainder of the facade
is brick of 1873, with 3 very tall bays, topped by
crow-stepped gables.
The ground floor has 2 small shops, and 2 doorways and 2
casement windows, above 3 very tall pointed arch cross
basement windows, each flanked by single lower 4-centred arch
white brick panels. Beyond to east a final bay, with a doorway
and 2 casements on the ground floor, with above a central
casement and above again a loft doorway and hoist within a
4-centred double-chamfered arch, with either side tall white
brick panels in 4-centred arches, each with a small casement.
INTERIOR: 2 king post roof misses in right range and a fine
C17 fireplace elaborately carved with panelled overmantle.
HISTORY: this building was probably built as the 'Golden
Hows', 'the principal mansion of the guilds' c1400.
The rear wing of 1873 was built for Boston Conservative Club.
Listing NGR: TF3285844000
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 486460
- 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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