Boston House and Attached Wing Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1966. House. 2 related planning applications.

Boston House and Attached Wing Wall

WRENN ID
heavy-bracket-harvest
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
Address
Boston House and Attached Wing Wall, 212 and 214, High Street, Boston Spa, LS23 6AD
OS grid reference
SE 432 454
Coordinates
53.90358, -1.34377
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Boston House, now a furniture store, is a large building dating from around 1800, constructed from ashlar magnesian limestone with a stone slate roof. It stands three storeys high and features five bays, with a two-storey wing at the rear left. To the right, an attached wing wall conceals a one-storey addition. The building has a plinth and a central six-panel door with an overlight that has radial glazing bars, all framed by a distyle Doric stone porch with a fluted frieze and a dentilled pediment. The second, fourth, and fifth bays have projecting stone sills beneath flat arches for the sash windows, while the first bay has two later doorways with six-pane overlights, one of which leads to a side passage.

On the first floor, there is a sill band for the windows similar to the ground floor. The second floor features unequally hung nine-pane sashes linked by a sill band, all set beneath a dentilled eaves cornice. The rendered stacks on the right end and to the left of the second bay each have nine flues, while there is a single-flue end stack on the left. The attached wing wall on the right has a blind window and doorway, then returns forward with another blind window and a square end pier.

The right return has a porch at the angle with the wing, which is lit by an iron roof lantern. The left return of the wing is illuminated by several sash windows. Inside, there is a contemporary wooden staircase with square baluster rods, turned newels, and a ramped handrail. The lobby off the left side of the hall features two round arches, and the fireplace in the rear-right room has a wooden surround with a garlanded frieze.

Local climate

Boston House and Attached Wing Wall 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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