St Johns Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Boston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1975. Workhouse.
St Johns Buildings
- WRENN ID
- fossil-sentry-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Boston
- Constituency
- Boston and Skegness MP: Richard Tice (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1975
- Type
- Workhouse
- Address
- St Johns Buildings, Skirbeck Road
- OS grid reference
- TF 332 433
- Coordinates
- 52.97103, -0.01727
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St John's Buildings is a former workhouse located on Skirbeck Road in Boston, built in 1837 by George Gilbert Scott. The building is currently derelict, with the rear sections demolished in 1980. It features an ashlar front and a red brick rear wall, topped with hipped Welsh slate roofs and two ridge stacks.
The exterior is a single storey with an 11-bay front arranged in a pattern of 1:2:2:1:2:2:1. The central bay is raised and slightly advanced, featuring a pediment above a tall carriage archway. This central archway is flanked by two wings, each with an advanced two-bay section that has a separate roof. The building has a plinth, pilasters at the ends and between the bays, and a plain frieze. The window openings are full height and semicircular-headed, with linked impost bands and rusticated keystones. There are two similar arched openings at each end, and a circular opening for a clock is set within the central pediment.
The building was constructed near the site of the medieval Hospital of St John, where an earlier workhouse was located. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
St Johns Buildings 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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