16a, 18 and 20, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Boston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1975. House, pair of shops and offices.
16a, 18 and 20, High Street
- WRENN ID
- tilted-spandrel-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Boston
- Constituency
- Boston and Skegness MP: Richard Tice (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1975
- Type
- House, pair of shops and offices
- Address
- 16a, 18 and 20, High Street, PE21 8SH
- OS grid reference
- TF 327 439
- Coordinates
- 52.97637, -0.02425
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
16A, 18, and 20 High Street is a building that originally served as a house but is now a pair of shops and offices. It has origins dating back to the 17th century, with alterations made in the late 18th and 19th centuries. The structure is constructed of red and brown brick, topped with a pantile roof, and features brick-coped gables and gable stacks. There is a small area of timber framing visible.
The exterior consists of three storeys and a five-bay front, which includes a brick band on the second floor and a cornice gutter supported by brackets. The building has two late 19th-century shop fronts with brackets for the fascia and 20th-century shop windows. A central 20th-century doorway has a plain surround and a hood. On the first floor, there is a canted oriel bay window that extends through two storeys, adorned with reeded pilasters and roundels at the corners and on the panels. To the right, there are four plain sash windows, and above them, four smaller sash windows with glazing bars.
At the rear, a long catslide roof reveals a small area of 17th-century framing in a side wall. The main rear wing features three openings with splayed stone lintels and keystones, although the original arrangement of the rear front has been altered over time. There are also 20th-century single-storey extensions at the back.
Inside, the building retains a turned baluster staircase from the 18th century, panel doors, remnants of 18th-century panelling, and some late thin timber framing visible in the passage walls.
Local climate
16a, 18 and 20, High Street 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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