Witham Tavern Public House

The Witham Tavern is an early 19th-century public house, altered in the later 19th century, located on Witham Bank in Boston. The building is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, with a hipped slate roof and a rear wall stack. It is two storeys high and has a three-bay front with a plinth and overhanging eaves supported by paired brackets. The front is arranged with shallow brick pilasters at the ends and between the bays. The ground floor features a pair of double-panelled doors set within a pilastered timber surround with a cornice, flat hood, and panelled ingoes. This is flanked by single tripartite sash windows, the one on the left having glazing bars. Above are three glazing bar sashes. To the left is a slightly set-back single bay with a tripartite sash and a glazing bar sash above. To the right-hand end, a broad shallow recess contains a tripartite sash to the ground floor and a double sash to the first floor. Window openings have rusticated stucco flat arches with keystones, and roundels to fluted mullions on the tripartite windows. The interior was not inspected during the listing process. The inn was first licensed in 1765, presumably replacing an earlier building on the site, and is thought to date from the construction of the nearby Grand Sluice.