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The Woad Man was situated on Church Road. This pub was built c1955 to serve a new housing estate. The name was appropriate to the area as the last man in England to grow woad commercially farmed locally. It was converted to apartments in 2022.

From Lincolnshire Heritage.

A public house purpose-built in 1955 to cater to the surrounding housing estate. The term "woad man" comes from the local woad-growing industry. The woad plant was used to produce a blue dye for wool and other fabrics. Until the early 20th century high timber drying sheds were commonplace in the landscape around Boston. The public house was closed at some point between 2014 and 2015 and is being converted into flats, with an extension being added to the rear, as of 2023. The original public house building was two storeys high, constructed of red brick with a hipped roof and single brick chimney stack to one end. The groud floor was divided in four bays, three windows and the entrance door to the right end. The first floor had two windows, above the left and right windows of the ground floor. As of 2022 the coversion works of the public house have meant a change to the old façade, the door and windows were removed and replaced with three identical bays on the first and ground floors. These bays are comprised of uPVC sash windows. The entrance to the now-flats is probably located at the side of the building or in the modern rear extension.

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