Beltoft House

Beltoft House is a house dating back to the 18th century or earlier, significantly altered and refaced in the early 19th century for John Collinson. It is constructed of stuccoed brick with a concrete tile roof and is arranged in a U-shaped plan. The house comprises a 2-room central entrance hall facing south, a single-room section to the rear left, and an earlier 3-room north range.

The south front has a 2:1:2 bay arrangement, with a pedimented central bay that slightly projects forward and side bays that also break forward. A plinth with raised sections sits beneath the windows. The central entrance features a Doric porch with columns supporting an entablature with a moulded cornice, a blocking course, and plain 20th-century balcony railings. The recessed part-glazed double doors have four panes over single panels. Flanking the doors are pilasters. The side bays have French windows with glazing bars. A first-floor band runs across the front. The central bay on the first floor has a full-height tripartite sash window with glazing bars, situated beneath the entablature with a moulded cornice and a hood, topped with a plain coped open pediment. The side bays have 12-pane sashes with narrow glazing bars and projecting sills. A plain frieze sits below the eaves, which have a moulded cornice. The roof is triple-spaned, with stone-coped gables; a pair of stacks are visible at the rear.

The right return features a French window, a double first-floor band, a plain frieze, and a corniced gutter at eaves level. The left return has three gabled ranges. The front range has French windows and a small 12-pane sash on the ground floor, with a pair of 12-pane sashes on the first floor. A decorative band runs at the first-floor and eaves levels. A narrower central section, flanked by wide pilasters with gabled coping (the coping on the left is damaged), contains single 12-pane sashes in flush wooden architraves on both floors.

The north front, with four first-floor windows, has an enclosed single-storey porch with a 6-panel door beneath a radial fanlight, round-headed panels with sills to the sides, and a flat stone roof. It also features 12-pane ground- and first-floor sashes in flush wooden architraves with stone sills, and coped gables with shaped kneelers. Corniced stacks are present throughout the building.

Inside, the south front retains original early 19th-century moulded cornices in the hall and main rooms, a pilastered marble chimney-piece on the ground floor to the left, a flagstone floor in the hall, and elliptical arches to the rear stairhall and first-floor hall, complete with archivolts and panelled soffits. An open-well staircase has a wreathed mahogany handrail, slender plain balusters, and profiled cheek-pieces. The interior includes panelled window shutters and 4-beaded-panel doors. The north range features a chamfered spine beam and exposed joists in the central room, an early 19th-century moulded cornice and boxed-in beam in the north-west room, and 18th-century 2- and 4-fielded-panel doors.