107, High Street

SE 7806-7906 BELTON HIGH STREET (east side)

18/19 No 107 (formerly listed as The 1.3.67 Old Belton Post Office)

GV II

House. Late C18 - early C19 with minor C19 alterations. Brown brick in Flemish bond. Pantile roof. Double-depth plan with 2-room, central entrance-hall west front. 2 storeys, 3 bays; symmetrical. Central bay breaks forward. Rendered plinth, incised in imitation of ashlar. Stone step to pedimented doorcase with slim panelled pilasters carrying deep entablature with dosserets bearing urns in relief, open pediment with moulded cornice and reeded frieze, round-headed opening with ram's head, garland and oval paterae, and panelled door (4 fielded panels over plain panel) beneath moulded lintel and plain fanlight in reveal. 16-pane sashes in flush wooden architraves with sills beneath stucco flat arches. Central pedimented bay has C19-C20 rebuilt open pediment with oculus with glazing bars and plain stone coping. Stepped and cogged brick eaves cornice to side bays. Hipped roof with pair of corniced roof stacks, upper sections rebuilt. Right return, 2 bays, has pair of 16-pane ground-floor sashes in flush wooden architraves with sills beneath brick flat arches, similar first-floor window to right and blind window panel to left. Left return has similar blind ground- and first-floor window panels to right, and 16-pane sliding sash to ground floor left. Interior. Entrance hall has corniced dado rail, round-headed opening to rear stairhall. Good open-well staircase with ramped corniced handrail, slender drop column balusters and newels, and profiled cheek-pieces. Basket-arched opening to upper hall. Corniced dado rail to ground-floor front rooms; round-headed alcove to left with ribbed archivolt. Segmental-arched cupboard with 6-panel door to ground-floor rear right. Original stone chimney-pieces and iron grates to first-floor bedrooms.

Listing NGR: SE7843706397