Boston Castle
BOSTON CASTLE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1132736
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Boston Castle
- Statutory Address:
- BOSTON CASTLE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1132736
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Boston Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOSTON CASTLE
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:
- BOSTON CASTLE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 42994 91513
Details
SK49SW ROTHERHAM BOSTON PARK
5/9 Boston Castle - II Lodge now house. Said to have been built c1775 for Thomas, 3rd Earl of Effingham. Deeply-coursed, squared rubble sandstone, roof not visible. Small, square, 2-storey building with addition to north side. Large herringbone-tooled quoins. Door near south corner has quoined surround and plain lintel. Window to each floor with projecting sills and C20 casements in plain architraves, 1st-floor windows taller. Embattled parapet with ashlar copings. Lower 2-storey addition to north has monoclinal roof with embattled ridge. Effingham resigned his commission when ordered to the American War of Independence; he spoke against the war in the House of Lords in 1775. Commemorates the Americans' first encounter with the British at Bunker's Hill near Boston in 1775 in which the British scored a hollow victory. Bicentenary booklet in Rotherham Local Studies Library.
Listing NGR: SK4299491513
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335641
- 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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