53 and 55, Wide Bargate is a Grade II listed building in the Boston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1975. A C18 Pair of shops.
53 and 55, Wide Bargate
- WRENN ID
- lone-forge-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Boston
- Constituency
- Boston and Skegness MP: Richard Tice (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1975
- Type
- Pair of shops
- OS grid reference
- TF 330 443
- Coordinates
- 52.98037, -0.01908
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pair of shops located at 53 and 55 Wide Bargate, dating from the mid-18th century and altered in the 19th century. The front is rendered, and the building features a pantile mansard roof with single ridge stacks.
The exterior consists of two storeys plus attics, with a four-bay front arranged in a 2:2 pattern. On the ground floor, there are two 19th-century shop fronts, each with a half-glazed door and a plain shop window, flanked by plain pilasters, a narrow fascia, and a cornice. The first floor has four plain sash windows with segmental heads. In the roof, there are two segmental-headed dormers, each with plain sashes.
The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
53 and 55, Wide Bargate 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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