Building record MLI13435 - 1, Strait Bargate, Boston
Summary
1, Strait Bargate, Boston. Shop known as Cherry Corner.
Type and Period (1)
- SHOP (Post Medieval to Early 20th Century - 1837 AD to 1901 AD)
Protected Status/Designation
Full Description
The shop known as Cherry Corner, on the corner of Strait Bargate and Market Place, was built in 1866 as a bookshop for Mr Morton in an Italianate style. It has four floors with a cellar underneath, on a corner site. The building is higher than the adjoining ones. The back walls of red brick; the front walls of yellow brick with decorative patterns of red brick. It has round-topped windows, getting smaller on successive floors. The street walls on the ground floor have been removed, destroying an interesting feature - the curved door on the corner. It was last used as a snack bar; and was vacant in 1968; and was being used as a shoe shop in 1994. Dimensions on the ground floor are 46 foot 2 inches in length, 29 foot 7 inches in width and 50 foot 8 inches in height. {1}
In 1995 it was being refurbished and the lower floors concealed with scaffolding. {2}{3}{4}
Number 1, Strait Bargate, on the corner of the Market Place and Strait Bargate, is a late 19th-century building containing a ground floor shop with accommodation over. Although the upper floors are now used for storage, they were clearly originally intended for domestic use. The building is built in buff brick laid in Flemish bond with red brick decorative detail. It is four storeys and occupies a corner plot with a long elevation facing onto Strait Bargate and a curved corner to a shorter elevation facing south onto the Market Place. The shop front has panelled pilasters to either side of plate glass windows, with an entrance from Strait Bargate. The three upper storeys diminish in height but each has the same arrangement of arched windows: one to the corner, two facing the Market Place and three facing Strait Bargate. All have decorative red brick surrounds (although any first-floor detail is concealed by paint) and buff keystones. Above the shop front is a moulded and dentilled cornice; between first and second storeys is a stone sill band; between second and third storeys is a moulded cornice; and below the eaves is a dentillated cornice in red brick. Above the second-storey windows is a decorative frieze in the form of a square pattern of red and buff bricks. Little interior detail remains, although two cast-iron fireplaces with basket grates survive, one without its surrounds (2011). {5}
Sources/Archives (5)
- <1> SLI2307 Index: 1994. INDEX RECORD OF INDUSTRIAL SITES. LI/SLHA/JMW35.
- <2> SLI674 Article in Serial: Bennet, M.. 1995. 'The Industrial Heritage of Boston in 1965 and 1995' in Lincolnshire History and Archaeology. VOL 30 P 68.
- <3> SLI674 Article in Serial: Bennet, M.. 1995. 'The Industrial Heritage of Boston in 1965 and 1995' in Lincolnshire History and Archaeology. VOL 30 P 67, FIG 5 AND 6.
- <4> SLI3718 Photograph: Bennet, M.. 1995. BOSTON: INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY. NO 19, 20.
- <5> SLI13505 Unpublished Document: English Heritage / Historic England. 2011->. Advice Report from a Heritage Asset Assessment. Case No. 462780.
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Location
| Grid reference | Centred TF 32804 44204 (14m by 15m) Surveyed |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | BOSTON, BOSTON, LINCOLNSHIRE |
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Record last edited
Mar 21 2021 8:35PM
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