London House

SE 4245-4345 BOSTON SPA HIGH STREET LS23 (south side)

6/60 Nos 238 and 240 (London House) and No 242

GV II

Shop with 2 dwellings to rear and over. c1830, altered. Ashlar sandstone facade, coursed, squared magnesian limestone elsewhere, graduated slate roof. 2 storeys and attic, 3 bays. Good shop front of c1900 has glazed central double-door with plain overlight flanked by large shop windows with slender mullions and transoms and with pilasters to each side and dentilled cornice over; to right is an angled corner doorway having later panelled door and margin-glazed overlight in ashlar surround with shaped and moulded canopy beneath recessed panel. 1st floor: bow windows, cantilevered out over the shop front, have continuous sill band and sashes of 4, 12 and 4 lights divided by plain stone mullions; blind central window with eared architrave. Plain frieze beneath stone dentils to wooden cornice forming gutter. Gable copings; cement-rendered end stack to left, central ashlar ridge stack. Right return: central doorway with fanlight under arch with imposts and keystone and with iron lantern over; casement to 1st floor has arch as door; similar partly-blocked attic window.

Listing NGR: SE4337445387