Greyhound Lodge

BELTON & MANTHORPE SK9339 MAIN STREET, Belton 1315-0/9/58 (West side) 21/09/79 Greyhound Lodge (Formerly Listed as: VILLAGE STREET Greyhound Lodge) (Formerly Listed as: VILLAGE STREET The Belton Club) II

Former public house, now a house. Dated 1839, and incorporating a resited bay window c1470. By Anthony Salvin. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and slate roof. 2 gable and single ridge stacks, with square coped double flues, 2 of them rendered. Tudor Revival style. Plinth, quoins, stepped coped gables. 2 storeys; 5 window range. Windows are C19 casements with stone surrounds and chamfered mullions. Slightly recessed entrance bay has a 2-light window with pointed arches under a label mould. Below it, a square panel with a greyhound, the badge of the Brownlow family, in relief. 4-centred arched plank door with ornamental hinges and label mould. To left, a wing with a scroll dated 1470 in the peak, and a 2 storey square stone bay window with hipped roof. On each floor, a pair of flat headed 2-light windows with pointed arched lights, and between floors, a frieze of shields. This window was removed from the Chantry House, Watergate, Grantham. To right, a double gabled block with a 2-light window flanked by 3-light windows. Below, a canted stone bay window, 2 lights, with hipped roof, flanked by 3-light windows. One of several estate buildings by Salvin for the first Earl Brownlow, 1815-1853, of Belton House. (Marsden J & Barber A: Belton House: London: 1985-1987: 46-58; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J & Antram N: Lincolnshire: London: 1964-1989: 136; Allibone J: Anthony Salvin: Cambridge: 1988-: 163).

Listing NGR: SK9304239648