4-10 Fishtoft Road and attached garden wall.

4-10 Fishtoft Road, Boston, Lincs, PE21 0AA

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A terrace of four early C19 workers cottages. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1388857
Date first listed:: 14-Feb-1975
List Entry Name:: 4-10 Fishtoft Road and attached garden wall.
Statutory Address:: 4-10 Fishtoft Road, Boston, Lincs, PE21 0AA

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1388857
Date first listed:: 14-Feb-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 27-Sep-2011
List Entry Name:: 4-10 Fishtoft Road and attached garden wall.
Statutory Address 1:: 4-10 Fishtoft Road, Boston, Lincs, PE21 0AA

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:: 4-10 Fishtoft Road, Boston, Lincs, PE21 0AA

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 33522 43299

Summary

A terrace of four early C19 workers cottages.

Reasons for Designation

Nos. 4-10 Fishtoft Road, a terrace of early C19 workers cottages, is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons. * Architectural: It is an early C19 terrace of simple working class dwellings that demonstrates unusual attention to design and detail, particularly to the main south elevation. * Historical: It may have been built as model housing for the workers of Tuxford's Boston and Skirbeck Iron Works, developed in the 1820s and 30s; until the late C19 this occupied a site immediately opposite the terrace. * Intactness: External detail and fabric survives largely intact.

History

Nos. 4-10 Fishtoft Road is a terrace of early C19 cottages. Immediately opposite the terrace, on the 1889 Ordnance Survey map, is the site of William Tuxford's Boston and Skirbeck Iron Works, developed in the 1820s and 30s and pioneers in the development of agricultural steam engines. The cottages may have been built to house workers and their families.

Historic Ordnance Survey maps of 1889 and 1905, as well as modern mapping, show five cottages in the terrace although there are in reality only four, one of three bays (No. 4) and three of two bays. There is no external evidence for the removal of front doors or the addition of windows, and a C20 bay window to No. 4 appears to be the only alteration to the south elevation of the terrace. C20 alterations to the north elevation include a continuous single storey lean-to behind Nos. 6-10. These contain kitchens and were built in 1981 as part of a modernisation scheme undertaken with planning permission and Listed Building Consent.

Details

MATERIALS: The terrace is built of red brick laid in Flemish Bond with a tiled roof hipped at the west end.

PLAN: Rectangular, of two storeys with modern single storey lean-to to the rear of Nos. 6-10. EXTERIOR: The terrace is set back from the road, separated from the pavement by front gardens. The main south elevation has nine bays: No. 4 has three and Nos. 6-10 two each. Three ridge stacks serve the four cottages, with two chimneys each for the three smaller dwellings and four for the larger cottage to the west. Nos. 4 and 6 have paired front doors, while the front doors of 8 and 10 are separated by a window. All the doors have six recessed panels above which are radiating fanlights under round arches. The larger cottage has a canted bay window to the ground floor, while the four other ground floor windows are sixteen-paned sashes under round arches, as are the nine first-floor windows. To the rear, the four first-floor windows in the north elevation are horizontal sliding sashes. The ground floor of Nos. 6-10 is concealed behind the C20 lean-to additions.

INTERIOR: The interiors of Nos. 4-10 were not seen. The three smaller cottages are said to have two first and two ground-floor rooms, the larger cottage three, and this is confirmed by the plans of 1981, although two ground-floor rooms in No. 4 have been made into one. All four cottages have new stairs.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: To the front of the four cottages is a low brick garden wall.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 486318
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Websites
Graces Guide. The Best of British Engineering., accessed from http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/William_Tuxford_and_Sons

Legal

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