Description

In the entry for
BELTON & MANTHORPE MAIN STREET,
SK 9239
Belton (north west
side)
1315-0/8/65 The Old School
and adjoining
boundary
14/11/94 Walls
GV II

The first sentence of the description shall be amended to read
"School, now a house and horologist's studio, and adjoining boundary walls"

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BELTON & MANTHORPE
SK9239 MAIN STREET, Belton
1315-0/8/65 (North West side)
The Old School and adjoining
boundary walls
GV II

School, now a house and workshop, and adjoining boundary
walls. Dated 1826 and 1838, with C20 alterations. By Anthony
Salvin. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and slate
roof. Central external rear wall stack, formerly with 5 round
coped flues, now reduced to one. Single external stack of the
same design on the left gable. Tudor Revival style. Plinth,
quoins, shouldered coped gables with kneelers. Single storey
plus attics; 5 window range. Windows have stone surrounds,
chamfered mullions and cornices. Most have diamond pane
glazing. Central porch with a through-eaves dormer with
crowstepped gable and finial, and a single light window.
Moulded doorcase with cornice and 4-centred arched board door.
Above it, a cross, and a scroll with Latin inscription.
Beyond, single windows, then larger cross casements. Right
gable has a 2-light window and is topped with a gabled single
bellcote. Below, a square porch with coped balustrade and
doorway similar to the front. Left gable has reglazed single
light windows flanking the stack. Beyond, a single storey
service building with monopitch corrugated iron roof, single
door and window. Outside, at the front, 2 lengths of dwarf
wall with chamfered coping and rounded corners, formerly
topped with a railing. At the rear, a coursed squared stone
boundary wall approx 2.5m high and 15m long, with a stepped
coping and an off-centre chamfered doorway.
An educational building provided for workers on the Belton
estate by the Brownlow family. One of several estate buildings
by Salvin for John, first Earl Brownlow, 1815-1853, of Belton
House.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J & Antram N:
Lincolnshire: London: 1964-1989: 135-136; Kerr M: Survey notes
on National Trust properties in Belton: 1985-1989; Allibone J:
Anthony Salvin: Cambridge: 1988-: 164).

Listing NGR: SK9297639604

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26483126

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