Keepers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1994. Estate cottage.
Keepers Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dusk-lintel-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Kesteven
- Constituency
- Grantham and Bourne MP: Gareth Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 November 1994
- Type
- Estate cottage
- Address
- Keepers Cottage, 25, Barkston Heath Lane, Belton and Manthorpe
- OS grid reference
- SK 936 397
- Coordinates
- 52.94696, -0.60724
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Keeper's Cottage is a pair of estate cottages, now functioning as a house, built in the early 19th century with some alterations made in the late 20th century. It is possibly designed by Jeffry Wyatville. The cottage is constructed of red brick and features hipped slate roofs, with a central concrete block ridge stack and a smaller brick stack at the rear. The building stands two storeys high and consists of three bays.
Most of the windows are glazing bar sashes, some of which have slight segmental heads. The central section has a 9-pane sash window above and a 16-pane sash window below. On either side of this central block, there is a single-storey hipped porch that runs the entire length of the block, which has a blocked doorway at the front. The right side of the cottage features three 16-pane sash windows flanked by smaller two-light casements, while the left side has a board door and a hipped projection with a segment-headed 12-pane sash window. To the right of this projection is a 20th-century French window, followed by another segment-headed 12-pane sash window.
This estate cottage was built to accommodate workers on the Belton estate by the Brownlow family of Belton House. The architectural style of the building bears some resemblance to the Waterloo Cottages, which are confirmed to be designed by Wyatville.
Local climate
Keepers Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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