Former Workhouse, Skirbeck Road, Boston, Lincolnshire
This building was built as the Boston Union Workhouse. The workhouse was designed by George Gilbert Scott and was built in 1837. It had an entrance building, the main workhouse building and an infirmary set between the workshop and laundry buildings. A building to the south of the infirmary appears on an 1887 ordnance survey map as a "vagrant lodge", but it may have been built as an isolation hospital. By 1914, there was a cottage home for children on the site, but the location of the building is unknown. Only the entrance building survives (in 1996). The rest of the workhouse was demolished in 1980. It is also known as St John's Buildings because it is built near the site of the medieval Hospital of St John, where the earlier workhouse was situated.
