Church House, 1 Wormgate is a Grade II listed building in the Boston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1949. House. 2 related planning applications.
Church House, 1 Wormgate
- WRENN ID
- scarred-chancel-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Boston
- Constituency
- Boston and Skegness MP: Richard Tice (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1949
- Type
- House
- Address
- Church House, 1 Wormgate, Lincolnshire, PE21 6NP
- OS grid reference
- TF 326 442
- Coordinates
- 52.97892, -0.02556
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church House is a building of largely 18th-century origin, built in the Fen Artisan Mannerist style. It is constructed of red/brown handmade brick with a plain tile roof. The building's plan is T-shaped at first-floor level, with a flat-roofed single-storey addition to the east. The main range is two storeys high with an attic; the east wing is of two storeys. A single truncated ridge stack stands in the centre of the roof.
The south front, facing the church, sits on a plinth and features rusticated quoins and a shaped Dutch gable. It has paired two-light cross-mullioned casement windows with small leaded panes, to both the ground and first floors. Ground-floor windows are fitted with external shutters, whilst the attic has a three-light window slightly off-centre within the gable, situated below a brick arch with a keystone. Arches of rusticated brick, diminishing in width from the ground floor upwards, are positioned above the ground and first-floor windows, each set below a three-course brick storey band that follows the line of the arches.
The west elevation has an off-centre door raised two steps above pavement level and set within a brick doorcase in the Roman Doric style, topped with a brick pediment. To the left of the door are single, three-light leaded casement windows on each floor. A smaller two-light casement sits above the doorcase, slightly to the right. The north elevation contains a small, irregularly shaped lead-paned window, positioned immediately below and to the west side of the roof apex. The later east wing is of box frame construction, featuring a single leaded casement window to the first floor.
The interior has been largely modernised. The ground floor opens into the Blenkin Memorial Hall to the north, with rooms located to the south on both the ground and first floors, and a further room to the north on the ground floor. These rooms contain slightly chamfered axial beams. Historic joinery detail includes window shutters and a small plank and batten cupboard door next to a modern fireplace in the first-floor room to the south. The three-light south attic window has ovolo mouldings on the inside; timber framing is visible in the north gable. The roof structure is entirely modern.
Local climate
Church House, 1 Wormgate 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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