Barclays Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Boston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1975. Bank. 5 related planning applications.
Barclays Bank
- WRENN ID
- blind-loggia-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Boston
- Constituency
- Boston and Skegness MP: Richard Tice (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1975
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- Barclays Bank, 52, Market Place, PE21 6LU
- OS grid reference
- TF 327 441
- Coordinates
- 52.9787, -0.02424
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Barclays Bank is a bank building constructed in 1876, designed by Lockwood and Mawson of Bradford in a late Gothic style. The front is made of ashlar stone, while the sides are built with Gault brick featuring ashlar dressings, topped with a slate roof.
The exterior has three storeys, with a full-height canted end. It features a moulded plinth, double string courses on each floor, a cornice adorned with carved florets, and a parapet that includes pierced quatrefoils containing shields. On the right side, there is a panelled entrance door with an overlight that has carved stone glazing bars in an ogee pattern, set within a slightly advanced bay that has a shouldered arch. To the left, there are two plain sash windows with shaped shouldered heads and narrow colonnettes. Above these, three stone hoods on carved brackets support panels featuring three pierced quatrefoils. Each side of the bay has three cross-mullioned windows on the first and second floors. A further bay is set back on the left, with single similar windows on both the side and front for each floor.
The return of the building has two gables, which include mullioned windows and two-storey canted bay windows. In the gables, there are shields set in quatrefoils within recessed panels.
The interior has not been inspected. Historically, this building was formerly the premises of the Stamford and Spalding Banking Company, which was founded in Stamford in the early 1830s, with its first branch in Boston opening in 1835.
Local climate
Barclays Bank 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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