Maud Foster Drain and Walls and Steps and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Boston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 May 1990. Drainage infrastructure.
Maud Foster Drain and Walls and Steps and Railings
- WRENN ID
- buried-floor-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Boston
- Constituency
- Boston and Skegness MP: Richard Tice (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 May 1990
- Type
- Drainage infrastructure
- Address
- Maud Foster Drain and Walls and Steps and Railings, Willoughby Road
- OS grid reference
- TF 331 446
- Coordinates
- 52.98264, -0.01845
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Maud Foster Drain, along with its walls, steps, and railings, is a drainage channel constructed around 1810, originally designed by John Rennie and later altered in the 20th century. It features red brick and ashlar gritstone, with brick retaining walls that were renewed in the 20th century, topped with gritstone ashlar coping blocks. The walls slope down to the water level, ending at Bargate Bridge to the south and curving to stop ends at the north.
On both sides of the drain near Bargate Bridge, there are pairs of pedestrian steps set within the thickness of the wall, leading down to a small stone platform at the base. On the west side, adjacent to Bargate Bridge, there are wider steps with curved side walls made of original brickwork and ashlar quoins. The retaining walls, except for one higher section on the west side, reach road level and are complemented by early 20th-century oak posts and rail balustrades.
Local climate
Maud Foster Drain and Walls and Steps and Railings 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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