ST JOHNS BUILDINGS

ST JOHNS BUILDINGS, SKIRBECK ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1388982
Date first listed:: 14-Feb-1975
List Entry Name:: ST JOHNS BUILDINGS
Statutory Address:: ST JOHNS BUILDINGS, SKIRBECK ROAD

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Date:: 1999-09-19
Reference:: IOE01/00378/04
Rights:: © Mr Ray Horrocks. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1388982
Date first listed:: 14-Feb-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Nov-1999
List Entry Name:: ST JOHNS BUILDINGS
Statutory Address 1:: ST JOHNS BUILDINGS, SKIRBECK ROAD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: ST JOHNS BUILDINGS, SKIRBECK ROAD

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 33244 43355

Details

BOSTON

TF3343SW SKIRBECK ROAD 716-1/15/153 (South side) 14/02/75 St John's Buildings (Formerly Listed as: SKIRBECK ROAD (South side) Former workhouse, gate piers and wall to former workhouse)

GV II

Workhouse front range, now derelict with the rear ranges demolished in 1980. 1837 by George Gilbert Scott. Ashlar front, red brick rear wall, hipped Welsh slate roofs, 2 ridge stacks. EXTERIOR: single storey, 11-bay front arranged 1:2:2:1:2:2:1 with central raised and slightly advanced pedimented bay over tall carriage archway, flanked by 5-bay wings, the 2-bay centre of each wing being advanced and separately roofed. Plinth, pilasters to ends and between bays, plain frieze. The window openings are set in full height semicircular-headed openings with linked impost bands and rusticated keystones. 2 similar arched openings to each end. In the central pediment a circular opening for a clock. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: built near the site of the medieval Hospital of St John where the earlier workhouse was situated.

Listing NGR: TF3324443355

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 486444
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.