Beechfield, Glebe House, Oxpark House and Riverside is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1966. House, hotel, school. 5 related planning applications.
Beechfield, Glebe House, Oxpark House and Riverside
- WRENN ID
- low-lime-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1966
- Type
- House, hotel, school
- Address
- Beechfield, Glebe House, Oxpark House and Riverside, 4, the Terrace, High Street, Boston Spa, LS23 6AH
- OS grid reference
- SE 434 454
- Coordinates
- 53.90354, -1.34048
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A hotel, later used as schools and now comprising four private dwellings, was built around 1790 for Kelita Kitchen and Company. The building is constructed of ashlar magnesian limestone with a stone slate roof. It is three storeys high with basements and has a symmetrical front of 1:7:1 bays, with the central bays recessed. An attached single-storey outbuilding is located on the right return.
The central bays feature segmentally-arched basement windows behind an iron and wooden balustrade that rises to a central doorway. The doorway has a panelled double door and fanlight with decorative glazing bars, set within an open-pedimented wooden porch. Bay eight has a six-panel door beneath a casement window with glazing bars, and a canopy. Otherwise, all other bays have projecting stone sills to sash windows with glazing bars under flat arches. The projecting end bays each have a tripartite ground-floor sash window of two, twelve, and two panes, with a recessed round-arched panel over the central light. The first-floor sash window is flanked by blind recessed panels and features a round-arched recessed panel above. A similar second-floor window is present, but without the arched panel. The roof is hipped with two yellow-brick ridge stacks and two cement-rendered ridge stacks.
A brick lean-to addition is set back on the right, connecting to a gabled outbuilding with a sash window under a flat arch and a ridge stack. The left return, which serves as the entrance front to Beechfield, has four bays. A six-panel door and six-pane overlight are located in bay two, within a 20th-century neo-classical porch; the other bays on each floor have sash windows with glazing bars.
The interior of Oxpark House has a large entrance hall with a staircase featuring a turned newel and square baluster rods. A similar style staircase is also present in Beechfield, and one-panel doors are featured throughout. The building operated as a hotel until 1797, when it was taken over for use as a school until 1818. Subsequently, it was divided into smaller schools and dwellings. The gabled outbuilding attached on the right may have served as a spa-water pump room, given its location directly above the source and on the cliff above the later Spa Bath House of 1834.
Local climate
Beechfield, Glebe House, Oxpark House and Riverside receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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