Beechfield, Glebe House, Oxpark House and Riverside

Beechfield, The Terrace, High Street

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1319896
Date first listed:: 29-Mar-1966
List Entry Name:: Beechfield, Glebe House, Oxpark House and Riverside
Statutory Address:: Beechfield, The Terrace, High Street

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1319896
Date first listed:: 29-Mar-1966
Date of most recent amendment:: 08-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: Beechfield, Glebe House, Oxpark House and Riverside
Statutory Address 1:: Beechfield, The Terrace, High Street
Statutory Address 2:: Glebe House, The Terrace, High Street
Statutory Address 3:: Oxpark House, 5, The Terrace, High Street
Statutory Address 4:: Riverside, 4, The Terrace, High Street

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

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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Location

Statutory Address:: Beechfield, The Terrace, High Street
Statutory Address:: Glebe House, The Terrace, High Street
Statutory Address:: Oxpark House, 5, The Terrace, High Street
Statutory Address:: Riverside, 4, The Terrace, High Street

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

District:: Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Boston Spa
National Grid Reference:: SE 43430 45463

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 29 April 2021 to reformat the text to current standards SE 4215-4345 6/76

BOSTON SPA HIGH STREET LS23 (north side, off), Beechfield, No 5, The Terrace (Oxpark House), Glebe House and No 4, The Terrace (Riverside)

formerly listed as part of The Terrace, No 1 (Greengates), No 2, No 3, No 4, Glebe House, Beechfield).

30.3.66

GV II Hotel, later schools, now four private dwellings. c1790 for Kelita Kitchen and Co (Scott p,87). Ashlar magnesian limestone, stone slate roof. Three storeys, with basements, 1:7:1-bay symmetrical front, the central bays recessed; attached one storey outbuilding on right return. Central bays have segmentally-arched basement windows behind an iron and wooden balustrade which ramps up to a central doorway having panelled double-door and fanlight with decorative glazing bars in an open-pedimented wooden porch; bay eight has a six-panel door beneath casement with glazing bars and canopy otherwise all other bays have projecting stone sills to sashes with glazing bars under flat arches. Projecting end bays each have; a tripartite ground-floor sash window of two, twelve and two panes with recessed round-arched panel over the central light; a first floor sash with glazing bars flanked by blind recessed panels and with round-arched recessed panel over; a similar second-floor window without the arched panel. Hipped roof with two yellow-brick ridge stacks and two cement-rendered ridge stacks. Set back on right is a brick lean-to addition which forts link to a gabled outbuilding having sash with glazing bars under flat arch and ridge stack. Left return (entrance front of Beechfield): four bays; six-panel door and six-pane overlight to bay two within C20 neo-classical porch; sashes with glazing bars to other bays on each floor.

Interior: Oxpark House has large entrance hall with staircase having turned newel and square baluster rods; smaller staircase in same style to Beechfield; one-panel doors. Used as a hotel only until 1797 when taken over for use as a school until 1818, then divided into smaller schools and dwellings. The gabled outbuilding attached on right may have served as a spa-water pump room since it is situated directly above the source and on the cliff above the later Spa Bath House of 1834

Listing NGR: SE4343045463

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Legacy System number:: 341996
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Scott, BM , Boston Spa, (1985), 87

Legal

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