Boston House And Attached Wing Wall

SE4245-4345 BOSTON SPA HIGH STREET LS23 (south side)

6/54 Nos 212 and 214 (Boston 30.3.66 House) and attached wing wall (formerly listed as No 212 Boston House)

GV II

Large house now furniture store and attached wing wall. c1800. Ashlar magnesian limestone, stone slate roof. 3 storeys, 5 bays with 2-storey wing to rear left; attached wing wall to right masks 1-storey addition on right return. Plinth; central 6-panel door and overlight with radial glazing bars within a distyle Doric stone porch with fluted frieze and dentilled pediment. Bays 2, 4 and 5 have projecting stone sills to sashes with glazing bars beneath flat arches; bay 1 has 2 later doorways with 6-pane overlights (the left door giving access to side passage). 1st floor: sill band to windows as ground floor. 2nd floor: unequally hung 9-pane sashes linked by sill band and set beneath dentilled eaves cornice. Rendered stacks to right end and to left of bay 2 both have 9 flues; single-flue end stack on left. Wing wall attached on right has blind window and doorway then returns forward with another blind window and square end pier. Right return: porch in angle with wing lit by iron roof lantern. Left return: wing lit by numerous sash windows. Interior : contemporary wooden staircase with square baluster rods, turned newels and ramped handrail; two round arches into lobby off left side of hall; fireplace in rear-right room has wooden surround with garlanded frieze.

Listing NGR: SE4321445465