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BOSTON TF3243NE SOUTH SQUARE 716-1/10/166 (East side) 27/05/49 Fydell House, wall, railings and 2 urns (Formerly Listed as: SOUTH STREET (East side) Fydell House, forecourt, wall, railings, gates, and gate piers) GV I House now adult education centre, wall, railings and urns. 1726 with minor C19 alterations. Architect possibly William Sands of Spalding. Red brick in Flemish bond, ashlar dressings, plain tiled hipped roof, brick valley stacks. Double pile plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attics, with cellar, stone capped plinth, 1st floor platt band, plain frieze with full entablature, balustraded parapet with 4 panelled piers. 6-bay front arranged 2:2:2 and divided by full height Doric pilasters. 4 stone steps to central 6-panel door with radiating fanlight in round-headed arch with keystone in stone doorcase with paired Doric columns, open scrolled pediment. Flanked by single small semicircular-headed sidelights and beyond a pair of windows. To 1st floor a pair of windows between each pilaster with small brick niche between central pair. Windows are glazing bar sashes with moulded stone architraves. In the roof 3 pedimented dormers behind the parapet. The rear elevation has a stone topped plinth, brick band, dentilled eaves, and C20 slender turned timber balusters to parapet. Of 6 bays, it has a central C19 pedimented 3-bay single-storey extension in painted timber, designed to resemble ashlar, with Doric pilasters and frieze. 4 semicircular steps to half-glazed door flanked by single glazing bar sashes. To either side of the projection are a pair of windows. To 1st floor 6 further windows, all being glazing bar sashes with rubbed brick wedge arches. To the cellar are 4 stone mullioned lights. In the 2 hipped ends of the roof a single pedimented dormer. 2 lead downpipes bear the date MDCCXXVI and a coat-of-arms. To the left a C19 single-storey 2-bay kitchen block. INTERIOR: panelled half with diamond flagged floor, plain early C18 marble fire surround with Delft tile inlay, bolection moulded overmantle. Decorated plaster ceiling with foliate roundels, fruit and swags. Room to left with full height panelling, dentilled frieze, egg-and-dart decorated fire surround. Rear room full height panelling and fine surround with scrolled brackets. Main stairs with 3 balusters per tread, fluted, plain, twisted, wreathed handrail, carved tread ends, fluted newels. Rococo plaster panels to stair hall. Back stairs with turned balusters. Upstairs rooms also with full height panelling, broken pediments to overdoors and fine surrounds. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached to the front are stone coped and ramped brick walls to forecourt. On the front these are lower, with stone base and coping, with a tall panelled stone pier at each end surmounted by a ball finial. The wall supports a set of fine wrought-iron railings, with central double gates with decorative overthrow. In the forecourt a pair of C18 moulded stone bases supporting stone urns. Attached to the kitchen block is a long garden wall with 2 gateways. HISTORY: the house was owned by the Jackson family, rebuilt in 1726 - a dated brick by the front door and the downpipes bear the date. At about that time it came into the ownership of Joseph Fydell, Mayor of Boston. It was owned by the Fydell family in the 18th and 19th centuries several of whom were MPs for Boston. It was acquired by the Boston Preservation Trust in 1935. Listing NGR: TF3285543876

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