2, Main Street

BELTON & MANTHORPE SK9239 MAIN STREET, Belton 1315-0/8/42 (North West side) 21/09/79 No.2 (Formerly Listed as: VILLAGE STREET No.2) GV II

Also known as: No.2 Keeper's House MAIN STREET Belton. Estate cottage, now a house. c1838, with late C20 alterations. By Anthony Salvin. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Ashlar ridge stack with 3 coped square flues. Plinth, quoins, coped gables with kneelers and finials. Single storey plus attics; 2 window range. T-plan. Windows are mainly C19 casements with stone surrounds and chamfered mullions. Gabled wing, to right, has a blank shield above, and below it, a square stone bay window with hipped roof and a 3-light cross casement. Range to left has a through-eaves dormer with a coped gable and a 2-light window. Below, to right, a 3-light window with cornice. Right return has a larger gabled through-eaves dormer with a 2-light window. Rear has C20 fenestration. One of severalestate buildings by Salvin for John, first Earl Brownlow, of Belton House. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J & Antrum N: Lincolnshire: London: 1964-1989: 135-136; Allibone J: Anthony Salvin: Cambridge: 1988-: 163).

Listing NGR: SK9298639622