Boston Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. House. 6 related planning applications.
Boston Lodge
- WRENN ID
- muted-frieze-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Boston Lodge, 42, High Street, Boston Spa, LS23 6EA
- OS grid reference
- SE 422 458
- Coordinates
- 53.90688, -1.35784
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Boston Lodge is a large house that has been converted into office premises. It dates from the late 18th century, with later additions from the 19th century. The building is constructed of ashlar magnesian limestone and features stone slate roofs. It has two storeys and a façade with a 2:3:2 bay arrangement, where the outer bays are set back. To the left of the center, there is a raised three-storey rear wing.
At the center of the building, stone steps lead up to a wide six-panel door topped with a fanlight that has radial glazing bars. This entrance is flanked by pilasters supporting a Doric sandstone porch, which includes a fluted frieze and a dentilled cornice. Above the door is a sash window with glazing bars, set in a flush wooden architrave on a projecting stone sill and beneath a flat arch. The flanking bays feature original two-storey canted bay windows with projecting sills, also fitted with sashes that have glazing bars and concealed lintels.
The side wings contain four-pane sashes below sashes with glazing bars, and the building has a dentilled eaves cornice. The center has hipped bay-window roofs and ashlar gable copings with rendered end stacks. The roofs of the side wings have hipped ends, with a late 19th-century stone end stack on the left and a rendered stack at the left hip, as well as a similar stack beyond the right hip.
Adjoining the left wing is a Gothic Revival doorway, which features a carved fruit and ball finial above it. The rear of the building includes a two-storey porch made of white brick, featuring a moulded round arch and keystone with a heraldic device and the motto 'Vincent qui se Vincent'. The right wing has a white-brick top storey and is inscribed with 'M.C.V. 1895 E. M. V'. On the left return, the side wing is made of rock-faced stone and displays the date 1885 above a first-floor window. The right return features a bay window to the left of a French window, situated beneath a dentilled cornice, with two 16-pane sashes on the first floor.
Local climate
Boston Lodge receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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