The Old School And Adjoining Boundary Walls

In the entry for BELTON & MANTHORPE MAIN STREET, SK 9239 Belton (north west side) 1315-0/8/65 The Old School and adjoining boundary 14/11/94 Walls GV II

The first sentence of the description shall be amended to read "School, now a house and horologist's studio, and adjoining boundary walls"

BELTON & MANTHORPE SK9239 MAIN STREET, Belton 1315-0/8/65 (North West side) The Old School and adjoining boundary walls GV II

School, now a house and workshop, and adjoining boundary walls. Dated 1826 and 1838, with C20 alterations. By Anthony Salvin. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and slate roof. Central external rear wall stack, formerly with 5 round coped flues, now reduced to one. Single external stack of the same design on the left gable. Tudor Revival style. Plinth, quoins, shouldered coped gables with kneelers. Single storey plus attics; 5 window range. Windows have stone surrounds, chamfered mullions and cornices. Most have diamond pane glazing. Central porch with a through-eaves dormer with crowstepped gable and finial, and a single light window. Moulded doorcase with cornice and 4-centred arched board door. Above it, a cross, and a scroll with Latin inscription. Beyond, single windows, then larger cross casements. Right gable has a 2-light window and is topped with a gabled single bellcote. Below, a square porch with coped balustrade and doorway similar to the front. Left gable has reglazed single light windows flanking the stack. Beyond, a single storey service building with monopitch corrugated iron roof, single door and window. Outside, at the front, 2 lengths of dwarf wall with chamfered coping and rounded corners, formerly topped with a railing. At the rear, a coursed squared stone boundary wall approx 2.5m high and 15m long, with a stepped coping and an off-centre chamfered doorway. An educational building provided for workers on the Belton estate by the Brownlow family. One of several estate buildings by Salvin for John, first Earl Brownlow, 1815-1853, of Belton House. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J & Antram 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-: 164).

Listing NGR: SK9297639604