Boston Hall East Wing Mews Cottage West Wing
BOSTON HALL, 218, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135047
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Boston Hall East Wing Mews Cottage West Wing
- Statutory Address:
- BOSTON HALL, 218, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135047
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Boston Hall East Wing Mews Cottage West Wing
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOSTON HALL, 218, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- EAST WING, 218A, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- MEWS COTTAGE, 222, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 4:
- WEST WING, 220, HIGH 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:
- BOSTON HALL, 218, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- EAST WING, 218A, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- MEWS COTTAGE, 222, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- WEST WING, 220, 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 43251 45435
Details
SE 4245-4345 BOSTON SPA HIGH STREET LS23 (south side)
6/56 No 218A (East Wing), 30.3.66 No 218 (Boston Hall), No 220 (West Wing) and No 222 (Mews Cottage) (formerly listed as No 218 (Boston Hall)
GV II
Large house with service wing; now offices, 2 dwellings and partly unoccupied at time of resurvey (1987). Late C18 and early C19. Coursed squared magnesian limestone, graduated slate roofs. 2-storey-and-attic, 5-bay centre with lower 2-bay side wing set back on left and 3-storey, 2-bay wing set back on right terminating at rear in a lower separately-roofed house (Mews Cottage). Main house (Boston Hall): plinth; central 6-panel door and fanlight with radial glazing bars under archivolt in a Doric, open-pedimented stone doorcase. All other bays have projecting stone sills to sashes with glazing bars under grooved wedge lintels with fluted keystones. Dentilled eaves cornice; shaped kneelers and ashlar gable copings; yellow-brick end stacks. Wing set back on left (East Wing): large projecting lateral stack has to left a panelled door in corniced doorcase beneath blind windows; 6-pane sash to 1st floor on right; stack has yellow brick shaft. Wing set back on right (West Wing): steps across front to panelled door on left having corniced doorcase beneath an unequally-hung, 9-pane sash with flat arch; sashes with glazing bars to ground-floor and 1st-floor right; 6-pane sashes to 2nd floor; hipped right end to roof. Rear: East Wing has margin-glazed French window flanked by tall unequally-hung 15-pane sashes; unequally-hung 9-pane sashes to 1st floor. Right return (Mews Cottage): has 6-panel door and 4-pane overlight in corniced wooden doorcase; 4-pane sashes; hipped roof. Interior: Boston Hall has inner door under fanlight with glazing bars; cantilevered wooden staircase with turned balusters to a wreathed and ramped handrail. Various contemporary fireplaces on 1st floor including one with Delft tiles and another with Neo-Classical panel on wooden surround with drops and small lions' heads.
Listing NGR: SE4325145435
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 341976
- 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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