5 and 7, Wide Bargate is a Grade II listed building in the Boston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1975. Shop. 2 related planning applications.
5 and 7, Wide Bargate
- WRENN ID
- iron-copper-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Boston
- Constituency
- Boston and Skegness MP: Richard Tice (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1975
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- 5 and 7, Wide Bargate, PE21 6QY
- OS grid reference
- TF 328 442
- Coordinates
- 52.97945, -0.02218
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
5 and 7 Wide Bargate is a shop building dating from the late 18th century, with alterations from the 19th and 20th centuries. It features colourwashed brick and a slate roof, which has a single gable stack and a ridge stack at the rear.
The exterior consists of three storeys and a three-bay front, topped with a dentilled wooden eaves cornice. The ground floor has a 20th-century shop front, with a passage opening to the right. On the first floor, there is a tripartite sash window on the left and a pair of plain sashes on the right. The second floor has a glazing bar tripartite sash window on the left and a pair of glazing bar sashes on the right. All window openings are adorned with painted brick segmental arches. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
5 and 7, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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