South Cottage, Village Hall and Church View Cottage and Garden Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Boston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1967. Cottage, village hall.
South Cottage, Village Hall and Church View Cottage and Garden Wall
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Boston
- Constituency
- Boston and Skegness MP: Richard Tice (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1967
- Type
- Cottage, village hall
- Address
- South Cottage, Village Hall and Church View Cottage and Garden Wall, Church Lane, Algarkirk
- OS grid reference
- TF 291 351
- Coordinates
- 52.89847, -0.08202
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
South Cottage, Village Hall, and Church View Cottage, along with the garden wall, were originally schoolmasters' houses and a school, designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott and built in 1856 under the patronage of Reverend B. Beridge. The building is constructed from squared, coursed limestone rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings, topped with a Westmoreland slate roof featuring stone-coped gables and moulded kneelers. It has two shaped ridge stacks and is arranged in an E-plan, with the school in the center flanked by two cottages.
The structure is a single storey with a nine-bay front, featuring a chamfered plinth. The central bay has an advanced gabled porch topped with a spired bellcote. The two end bays are advanced and gabled with upper floors, while the others are set back and include a partly external gable stack. The porch contains a pair of lancet windows and single doorways on each side, which have Caernarvon arched heads and trefoils with moulded hoods. Above one of the doors is a shield dated 1856.
On either side of the porch are two pairs of stepped trefoiled lancets with moulded octagonal shafts and chamfered over arches. Beyond these are two-light windows with Caernarvon arched heads, moulded octagonal center shafts, and chamfered rectangular surrounds. The upper floors in the end gables feature pairs of similar windows with trilobe heads and pointed over arches that have rosettes in the tympana. The recessed end bays have pent lead-roofed porches with timber bases, arches, and lattice work. On the first floor, there is a two-light window with a moulded mullion and flat head. In front of the cottages, there are low rubble garden walls with moulded ashlar copings, which terminate at each end in low coped piers.
Local climate
South Cottage, Village Hall and Church View Cottage and Garden Wall sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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