Dial Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Dial Cottage
- WRENN ID
- blind-kitchen-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Kesteven
- Constituency
- Grantham and Bourne MP: Gareth Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Dial Cottage, Main Street, Belton and Manthorpe, NG32 2LW
- OS grid reference
- SK 930 397
- Coordinates
- 52.94698, -0.61637
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dial Cottage is an estate cottage that has been converted into a house. It was built in 1849 and features some alterations and additions from the late 20th century, possibly six in total. The cottage was designed by Anthony Salvin and is constructed of ashlar with a slate roof. It showcases a Jacobean Revival style, characterized by a central ridge stack with three coped and rendered square flues set diagonally, a plinth, and elaborate shaped coped gables with kneelers and finials.
The building is a single storey plus attics and has a two-window range. The windows are adorned with stone surrounds and mullions, featuring leaded glazing. There are two through-eaves dormers with elaborate shaped gables and two-light windows, along with a larger two-light window to the left. To the right, there is a three-light window with a stepped head on the central light. The left gable displays a lozenge panel containing a sundial, beneath which is a canted stone bay window with a hipped roof. At the rear, there is a dormer with a single light window, and below it, a porch with a shouldered gable that has been altered to form a bay window.
Dial Cottage is one of several estate buildings designed for John, the first Earl Brownlow, who lived from 1815 to 1853.
Local climate
Dial 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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