Description

BELTON & MANTHORPE SK9239 MAIN STREET, Belton 1315-0/8/49 (North West side) 21/09/79 Belton Post Office and adjoining Smithy (Formerly Listed as: VILLAGE STREET, Belton (North West side) Smithy, Post Office and adjoining Cottage) GV II

Estate cottage, now a house, post office and smithy. Cottage C17, remodelled 1838; smithy 1838. Both by Anthony Salvin. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Cottage has 2 external gable stacks with coped square double flues. Smithy has a similar ridge stack. Jacobean Revival style. Cottage, to left, single storey plus attics; 2 window range. Ashlar plinth, quoins, coped gables with kneelers. 2 through-eaves dormers with on corbels, with shouldered shaped gables and ball finials, each with a 2-light window. Below, to left, a 3-light window with a heavy cornice. To right, a canted stone bay window with hipped roof and a 3-light window. All these windows are casements with stone surrounds and chamfered mullions. INTERIOR has a C17 chamfered span beam with stops, and a similar beam now boxed in. To right, a single storey link building containing the post office. Central half-glazed door with overlight, flanked to left by a single light window, both with stone surrounds. 2 gabled roof ventilators. To right, a segmental arch with half-glazed double doors to the shoeing floor. The single storey cross wing forming the smithy has shoulderd shaped gables with ball finials. At each end, a 5-light window with stone mullions and surround. Above the front window, a scroll, and above it, in the gable, a stone horseshoe enclosing a datestone. Brick lined interior has a transverse arch containing the flues to 2 forges, and king post roof. One of several estate buildings by Salvin for John, first Earl Brownlow, of Belton House. The smithy is complete and in use. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Antrum 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-: 163).

Listing NGR: SK9289439563

External Links

• Wikidata Q26585943

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