Details
BOSTON
TF3243NE SOUTH SQUARE
716-1/10/166 (East side)
27/05/49 Fydell House, wall, railings and 2
urns
(Formerly Listed as:
SOUTH STREET
(East side)
Fydell House, forecourt, wall,
railings, gates, and gate piers)
GV I
House now adult education centre, wall, railings and urns.
1726 with minor C19 alterations. Architect possibly William
Sands of Spalding. Red brick in Flemish bond, ashlar
dressings, plain tiled hipped roof, brick valley stacks.
Double pile plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attics, with cellar, stone capped
plinth, 1st floor platt band, plain frieze with full
entablature, balustraded parapet with 4 panelled piers. 6-bay
front arranged 2:2:2 and divided by full height Doric
pilasters. 4 stone steps to central 6-panel door with
radiating fanlight in round-headed arch with keystone in stone
doorcase with paired Doric columns, open scrolled pediment.
Flanked by single small semicircular-headed sidelights and
beyond a pair of windows. To 1st floor a pair of windows
between each pilaster with small brick niche between central
pair. Windows are glazing bar sashes with moulded stone
architraves. In the roof 3 pedimented dormers behind the
parapet.
The rear elevation has a stone topped plinth, brick band,
dentilled eaves, and C20 slender turned timber balusters to
parapet. Of 6 bays, it has a central C19 pedimented 3-bay
single-storey extension in painted timber, designed to
resemble ashlar, with Doric pilasters and frieze. 4
semicircular steps to half-glazed door flanked by single
glazing bar sashes. To either side of the projection are a
pair of windows. To 1st floor 6 further windows, all being
glazing bar sashes with rubbed brick wedge arches. To the
cellar are 4 stone mullioned lights. In the 2 hipped ends of
the roof a single pedimented dormer. 2 lead downpipes bear the
date MDCCXXVI and a coat-of-arms.
To the left a C19 single-storey 2-bay kitchen block. INTERIOR:
panelled half with diamond flagged floor, plain early C18
marble fire surround with Delft tile inlay, bolection moulded
overmantle. Decorated plaster ceiling with foliate roundels,
fruit and swags.
Room to left with full height panelling, dentilled frieze,
egg-and-dart decorated fire surround.
Rear room full height panelling and fine surround with
scrolled brackets.
Main stairs with 3 balusters per tread, fluted, plain,
twisted, wreathed handrail, carved tread ends, fluted newels.
Rococo plaster panels to stair hall. Back stairs with turned
balusters.
Upstairs rooms also with full height panelling, broken
pediments to overdoors and fine surrounds.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached to the front are stone coped and
ramped brick walls to forecourt. On the front these are lower,
with stone base and coping, with a tall panelled stone pier at
each end surmounted by a ball finial. The wall supports a set
of fine wrought-iron railings, with central double gates with
decorative overthrow. In the forecourt a pair of C18 moulded
stone bases supporting stone urns.
Attached to the kitchen block is a long garden wall with 2
gateways.
HISTORY: the house was owned by the Jackson family, rebuilt in
1726 - a dated brick by the front door and the downpipes bear
the date. At about that time it came into the ownership of
Joseph Fydell, Mayor of Boston.
It was owned by the Fydell family in the 18th and 19th
centuries several of whom were MPs for Boston. It was acquired
by the Boston Preservation Trust in 1935.
Listing NGR: TF3285543876
