St Leonard's Bedehouses

30-39, Willoughby Road, Boston, PE21 9EG

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389068
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-1999
List Entry Name:: St Leonard's Bedehouses
Statutory Address:: 30-39, Willoughby Road, Boston, PE21 9EG

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389068
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-1999
List Entry Name:: St Leonard's Bedehouses
Statutory Address 1:: 30-39, Willoughby Road, Boston, PE21 9EG

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:: 30-39, Willoughby Road, Boston, PE21 9EG

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 33144 44902

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 08/05/2018

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BOSTON WILLOUGHBY ROAD (East side) Nos. 30-39 (Consecutive) St Leonard's Bedehouses

(Formerly listed as Nos. 30-39 (Consecutive), WILLOUGHBY ROAD) GV II Group of ten almshouses, formerly St Leonard's Hospital. 1874. Red brick, with polychromatic yellow brick and tile bands, Welsh slate roof arranged in bands of blue/grey and purple. Two gable stacks, four paired ridge stacks, with brick ribbed sides and dog-toothed oversailing courses. The ten almshouses are arranged as a central block of six, with a detached block of two at each end. EXTERIOR: single storey with chamfered plinth, sill band, head band of tiles, overhanging fascia and bargeboards. The central six-unit block is of eight bays, with a central gable containing the datestone. A central gabled porch with double doorways is flanked by two three-light casements, a further gabled porch with double doorway and a single three-light casement. The end two-unit blocks each have a gabled porch to the ends, with a single doorway, with two three-light casements between. The porches have a low buttress with chamfered offset flanking the entrance, pointed brick arch, planked inner doors. The windows have yellow brick reveals, painted stone sills and flush chamfered lintels.

INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: the almshouses were built for ten poor men and their wives.

Listing NGR: TF3314444902

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Legacy System number:: 486531
Legacy System:: LBS

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