Central Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Boston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 November 1999. Post office. 6 related planning applications.
Central Post Office
- WRENN ID
- veiled-postern-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Boston
- Constituency
- Boston and Skegness MP: Richard Tice (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 November 1999
- Type
- Post office
- Address
- Central Post Office, 18, Wide Bargate
- OS grid reference
- TF 328 443
- Coordinates
- 52.98001, -0.02223
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Central Post Office in Boston is a general post office built in 1935, designed in the Queen Anne style. It features red brick construction with Portland stone quoins and dressings, and a slate roof with lead dressings, topped with a single ridge stack that has a stone capping. The building is planned with a corner entrance and a tower.
The exterior consists of two storeys plus attics, with an ashlar plinth and a modillion stone cornice. The two facades are arranged in four bays, with three narrower bays and one broader bay at the corner, which is gabled. Between these is a three-storey circular entrance tower made of ashlar, topped with a domed copper roof. The double entrance door is framed by an open pedimented Ionic doorcase, with a panel above inscribed "Post Office" and an escutcheon in the pediment. Above this, there is a three-light window divided by stone pilasters with plain capitals, featuring a continuous curved sill with tabs and a cornice. At the top of the tower, there is a smaller similar three-light arrangement with carved flat brackets supporting the cornice.
On the Bargate elevation, to the right, there is a single tripartite glazing bar sash window with a semicircular overlight, set in a full-height semicircular-headed stone surround with a keystone. To the left, there are three glazing bar sashes in moulded stone surrounds, each with moulded sills, aprons, and a cornice above. On the first floor to the right, there is a glazing bar sash in an eaved moulded surround, topped with an open pediment containing a wreathed escutcheon. To the left, there are three more glazing bar sashes with moulded eaved surrounds, sills with aprons, and cornices. In the gable, there is a glazing bar Diocletian window with a stone surround and keystone. The roof features three glazing bar sash dormer windows with leaded segmental heads.
The elevation facing Park Gate mirrors the Bargate elevation but has a side entrance at the centre of the three-bay range on the ground floor. This entrance has a moulded surround and a narrow hood, topped by a semicircular opening with glazing bars, set within a moulded stone surround with a keystone and an open pediment. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Central Post Office 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 — 2 transactions since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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