16A, 18 AND 20, HIGH STREET

BOSTON

TF3243NE HIGH STREET 716-1/10/32 (East side) 14/02/75 Nos.16A, 18 AND 20

GV II

House now pair of shops and offices. C17 origins with late C18 and C19 alterations. Red/brown brick, pantile roof, brick coped gables, gable stacks. Small area timber-framed. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 5-bay front with 2nd floor brick band and bracketed cornice gutter. 2 late C19 shop fronts with brackets to fascia, C20 shop windows. Central C20 doorway with plain surround and hood. To first floor a canted oriel bay window rises through 2 storeys, with reeded pilasters and roundels at the angles and to panels. To right 4 plain sashes, above 4 smaller glazing bar sashes. To the rear a long catslide roof has a small area of C17 framing visible in a side wall. In the main rear wing elevation 3 openings have splayed stone lintels with keystones, but the original arrangement of the rear front has been lost due to later alterations. C20 single storey rear extensions. INTERIOR: retains C18 turned baluster stair, panel doors and remnants of C18 panelling and some late thin timber framing visible in passage walls.

Listing NGR: TF3275943937