43-44 Market Place, Boston

MATERIALS: Stucco and red brick with stucco dressings and quoins. Shallow pitched roof clad in Welsh slate with two Gault brick gable stacks.

PLAN: The building has an L-shaped plan with a rear wing extending the full length of the plot.

EXTERIOR: The building is part of a terrace of houses with shop fronts facing the Market Place which range in date from the C18 to C19. It has three storeys and a four-bay front with a moulded eaves cornice on paired brackets. The C20 shop front has a brick stallriser and a display window consisting of three large panes with transom lights and a glazed door on the right. It is flanked by fluted pilasters and has a plain fascia supported on brackets. The first floor has four two-over-two pane sash windows, and the second floor has a central, blank, shaped stucco panel, flanked by smaller two-over-two pane sashes. The openings have rusticated lintels with keystones. The early-C18 rear, red-brick wing has a tumbled gable and brick band, and dog-toothed eaves. There is a flat-headed dormer on the south side and three windows with gauged brick arches, the first is blocked and the other two contain two-over-two pane sashes.

INTERIOR: Internally the building is much altered and does not appear to retain any joinery or decorative elements from any earlier phase; although it is possible that some cornicing may survive behind the inserted ceilings. The plan form has been remodelled in the C20 to form a restaurant and kitchen on the ground floor, a shop and bar on the first floor, and domestic accommodation on the second floor.