50, High Street

The building at 50 High Street, Boston, is an early 19th-century warehouse, now used as a studio. It is constructed of stucco, red brick, and rusticated ashlar quoins, with an ashlar ground floor. The roof is a shallow hipped Welsh slate roof with deep overhanging eaves and a plain soffit. The front elevation is five stories high and has three bays. A painted stone band runs along the first floor. The ground floor features a planked entrance door set within a segmental arch and flanked by two blocked round-headed openings. Each of the subsequent floors has a central recessed doorway, flanked by segmental-headed openings with keystones and stone sills. These openings contain recessed hopper head sashes with vertical glazing bars, some of which are boarded. The street elevation shows two bays, with two round openings on the ground floor, a doorway and window on the first floor, and two window openings on the upper floors. The riverside elevation is brick and contains a window and hatch doorway on each floor. Painted lettering, now faded, reads "Van Smirren's Fish Canning" on the front. The interior has not been inspected.