1, Main Street

BELTON & MANTHORPE SK9239 MAIN STREET, Belton 1315-0/8/41 (North West side) 11/04/80 No.1 GV II

Estate cottage, now a house. Dated 1896. By Bentley Rudd of Grantham, builder, for Earl Brownlow. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Central ashlar ridge stack with 4 square coped flues, and similar ridge stacks with double and single flues. Tudor Revival style. Plinth, quoins, coped gables with kneelers and ball finials. 2 storeys; 3 x 3 windows. T-plan. Windows are mainly C19 casements with stone surrounds, cornices and chamfered mullions. Gabled wing to left, with a 2-light window above and a 3-light window below. To right, main range with a small single light window flanked to right by a square panel with datestone. Below, a lean-to verandah, with turned wooden columns and splat balustrade, covering a board door and a 3-light metal framed casement. Right gable has a 2-light window, and below, a carved stone bay window with a hipped roof and a 3-light cross casement. Left return has a projecting gabled central bay with a window on each floor, flanked by single grond floor windows. An estate cotttage provided for workers on the Belton estate by the Brownlow family of Belton House. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J & Antrum N: Lincolnshire: London: 1964-1989: 135-136; Kerr M: Survey notes on National Trust properties in Belton: 1985-1989).

Listing NGR: SK9292639587