Beltoft House

SE 80 NW BELTON BELTON ROAD (south side) Beltoft 8/9 Beltoft House 1.3.67 - II

House. C18 or earlier origins, altered and refronted in early C19 for John Collinson. Stuccoed brick. Concrete tile roof. U-shaped on plan: 2-room, central entrance-hall south front with single-room section to rear left, linking with earlier 3-room north range. 2 storeys. South front: 2:1:2 bays with pedimented central bay, and side bays breaking forward. Plinth with raised sections beneath windows. Central entrance has Doric porch with columns carrying entablature with moulded cornice, blocking course and plain C20 balcony railings. Pilasters flanking recessed part-glazed double doors with 4 panes over single panels. Side bays have French windows with glazing bars in reveals. First-floor band. First floor: central bay has full- length tripartite sash with glazing bars beneath entablature with moulded cornice and hood, and plain coped open pediment. Side bays have 12-pane sashes with narrow glazing bars and projecting sills. Plain frieze below eaves with moulded cornice. Triple-span roof with stone-coped gables: Pair of stacks to rear. Right return has French window, double first-floor band, plain frieze and corniced gutter at eaves level. Left return has 3 gabled ranges: front range with French windows and small 12-pane sash to ground floor, pair of 12-pane sashes to first floor, band at first-floor and eaves level; narrower central section, flanked by wide pilasters with gabled coping (that to left damaged), has single 12-pane sashes in flush wooden architraves to each floor. North front, with 4 first-floor windows, has enclosed single-storey porch with 6-panel door beneath radial fanlight, round-headed panels with sills to sides, flat stone roof; 12-pane ground- and first-floor sashes in flush wooden architraves with stone sills; coped gables with shaped kneelers. Corniced stacks throughout. Interior. South front has original early C19 moulded cornices to hall and main rooms, pilastered marble chimney-piece to ground floor left, flagstone floor to hall, elliptical arches to rear stairhall and first-floor hall with archivolts and panelled soffits, open-well staircase with wreathed mahogany handrail, slender plain balusters and profiled cheek-pieces. Panelled window shutters and 4-beaded-panel doors. North range has chamfered spine beam and exposed joists to central room, early C19 moulded cornice and boxed-in beam to north-west room, C18 2- and 4-fielded-panel doors. W Read, History of The Isle of Axholme, 1858, pp 357-60; N Pevsner and J Harris, The Buildings of England; Lincolnshire, 1978, p 190.

Listing NGR: SE8101106724