St Leonard's Bedehouses is a Grade II listed building in the Boston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 November 1999. Almshouses. 3 related planning applications.

St Leonard's Bedehouses

WRENN ID
high-footing-pearl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Boston
Constituency
Boston and Skegness MP: Richard Tice (RUK)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 November 1999
Type
Almshouses
Address
St Leonard's Bedehouses, 30-39, Willoughby Road, PE21 9EG
OS grid reference
TF 331 449
Coordinates
52.98495, -0.01813
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Leonard's Bedehouses is a group of ten almshouses, originally part of St Leonard's Hospital, built in 1874. The structure is made of red brick, featuring polychromatic yellow brick and tile bands, and has a Welsh slate roof with bands of blue/grey and purple. It includes two gable stacks and four paired ridge stacks, characterized by brick ribbed sides and dog-toothed oversailing courses.

The almshouses are arranged in a central block of six, with a detached block of two at each end. They are single-storey buildings with a chamfered plinth, a sill band, a head band of tiles, and overhanging fascia and bargeboards. The central six-unit block consists of eight bays, highlighted by a central gable that contains the datestone. It features a central gabled porch with double doorways, flanked by two three-light casement windows, and another gabled porch with a double doorway and a single three-light casement. Each end block has a gabled porch with a single doorway and two three-light casements between. The porches are supported by low buttresses with chamfered offsets beside the entrances, and they have pointed brick arches and planked inner doors. The windows are designed with yellow brick reveals, painted stone sills, and flush chamfered lintels.

The almshouses were constructed to provide accommodation for ten poor men and their wives.

Local climate

St Leonard's Bedehouses 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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