London House is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. Shop, dwelling.

London House

WRENN ID
swift-rafter-wind
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Leeds
Constituency
Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 February 1988
Type
Shop, dwelling
Address
London House, 238 and 240, High Street, Boston Spa
OS grid reference
SE 433 453
Coordinates
53.90286, -1.34134
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

London House is a shop with two dwellings to the rear and above, dating from around 1830 and altered since. The building features an ashlar sandstone facade, with coursed, squared magnesian limestone on other parts, and a graduated slate roof. It has two storeys and an attic, with three bays. The shop front, dating from around 1900, includes a glazed central double door with a plain overlight, flanked by large shop windows that have slender mullions and transoms, and pilasters on either side topped with a dentilled cornice. To the right, there is an angled corner doorway with a later panelled door and a margin-glazed overlight in an ashlar surround, featuring a shaped and moulded canopy beneath a recessed panel.

On the first floor, bow windows project out over the shop front and have a continuous sill band, with sashes consisting of 4, 12, and 4 lights divided by plain stone mullions. There is also a blind central window with an eared architrave. Below a wooden cornice that forms a gutter, there is a plain frieze beneath stone dentils. The gable copings are present, and there is a cement-rendered end stack to the left, along with a central ashlar ridge stack. On the right return, there is a central doorway with a fanlight under an arch, complete with imposts and a keystone, and an iron lantern above. A casement window on the first floor has an arch similar to that of the door, and there is a partly-blocked attic window.

Local climate

London House 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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