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BOSTON Witham Tavern Public House WITHAM BANK (East side) TF3244NW 716-1/4/249 14/02/75 GV Grade II Public house. Early C19, altered later C19. Red brick in Flemish bond, hipped slate roof, rear wall stack. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3-bay front, with plinth and overhanging eaves on paired brackets, arranged with shallow brick pilasters at ends and between bays. To ground floor a pair of double panelled doors with blocked overlight are set in a pilastered timber surround with cornice, flat hood and panelled ingoes?. Flanked by single tripartite sashes, that on the left with glazing bars. Above are 3 glazing bars sashes. To the left a slightly set back later C19 single bay, with tripartite sash and glazing bar sash above. To the right-hand end a broad shallow recess contains a tripartite sash to ground floor, and double sash to 1st floor. Window openings have rusticated stucco flat arches with keystones, and roundels to fluted mullions on the tripartite windows. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: the inn was recorded as first licensed in 1765, presumably an earlier building on this site, and would date from the construction of the nearby Grand Sluice. Listing NGR: TF3192144915 Minor amendment on about 17 August 2015 that made a change of grid reference to TF3230644643 and removed the first line of the description: Includes: No.50 Witham Cottage WITHAM WEST BANK.

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