St Leonard's Bedehouses
30-39, Willoughby Road, Boston, PE21 9EG
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389068
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1999
- List Entry Name:
- St Leonard's Bedehouses
- Statutory Address:
- 30-39, Willoughby Road, Boston, PE21 9EG
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389068
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1999
- List Entry Name:
- St Leonard's Bedehouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- 30-39, Willoughby Road, Boston, PE21 9EG
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:
- 30-39, Willoughby Road, Boston, PE21 9EG
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 33144 44902
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 08/05/2018
TF3344NW
716-1/5/239
BOSTON
WILLOUGHBY ROAD (East side)
Nos. 30-39 (Consecutive)
St Leonard's Bedehouses
(Formerly listed as Nos. 30-39 (Consecutive), WILLOUGHBY ROAD)
GV
II
Group of ten almshouses, formerly St Leonard's Hospital. 1874. Red brick, with polychromatic yellow brick and tile bands, Welsh slate roof arranged in bands of blue/grey and purple. Two gable stacks, four paired ridge stacks, with brick ribbed sides and dog-toothed oversailing courses. The ten almshouses are arranged as a central block of six, with a detached block of two at each end.
EXTERIOR: single storey with chamfered plinth, sill band, head band of tiles, overhanging fascia and bargeboards. The central six-unit block is of eight bays, with a central gable containing the datestone. A central gabled porch with double doorways is flanked by two three-light casements, a further gabled porch with double doorway and a single three-light casement. The end two-unit blocks each have a gabled porch to the ends, with a single doorway, with two three-light casements between. The porches have a low buttress with chamfered offset flanking the entrance, pointed brick arch, planked inner doors. The windows have yellow brick reveals, painted stone sills and flush chamfered lintels.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: the almshouses were built for ten poor men and their wives.
Listing NGR: TF3314444902
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 486531
- 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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