Ship Tavern is a Grade II listed building in the Boston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1974. Public house.

Ship Tavern

WRENN ID
fossil-moulding-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Boston
Constituency
Boston and Skegness MP: Richard Tice (RUK)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 November 1974
Type
Public house
Address
Ship Tavern, Custom House Lane, Lincolnshire, PE21 6HH
OS grid reference
TF 328 439
Coordinates
52.97657, -0.02267
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Ship Tavern is a two-storey public house built in the 18th century, featuring an L-shaped plan. Constructed of brown brick in English bond with red brick dressings, it has a slate roof. The front elevation has a central entrance with a pedimented doorcase and slender rounded pilasters, leading to a late-20th-century door flanked by tripartite windows with modern glazing bar sashes. Above the entrance, there is a blocked narrower window opening, and the upper floor has two matching windows, all set beneath broad red-brick segmental-arched heads. The east gable includes an attic window with a three-over-three pane sash frame. The rear wing has two large and one small window openings with undivided sash frames, while the front range features ridge chimneys on each gable.

Inside, the public house has been remodelled to create an open-plan layout, with a central late-20th-century bar counter and back bar. The front section retains hearths on both end walls and includes a central entrance lobby with rear access passages to the toilets. Access to the cellar is provided through a floor hatch in the bar area, with wooden steps leading down. The cellar has low, flat ceilings, some areas supported by modern wooden joists. The front section also features late-20th-century fixed upholstered benches at both ends.

Local climate

Ship Tavern sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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