Dial Cottage

BELTON & MANTHORPE SK9339 MAIN STREET, Belton 1315-0/9/57 (West side) 21/09/79 Dial Cottage (Formerly Listed as: VILLAGE STREET Dial Cottage) II

Estate cottage, now a house. Dated 1849, with late C20 alterations and additions, possibly 6. By Anthony Salvin. Ashlar with slate roof. Central ridge stack with 3 coped and rendered square flues set diagonally. Jacobean Revival style. Plinth, and elaborate shaped coped gables with kneelers and finials. Single storey plus attics; 2 window range. Windows have stone surrounds and mullions, and leaded glazing. 2 through-eaves dormers with elaborate shaped gables and 2-light windows, and below, a larger 2-light window to left. To right, a 3-light window with a stepped head to the central light. Left gable has a lozenge panel containing a sundial, and below, a canted stone bay window with a hipped roof. At the rear, a dormer with single light window. Below, a porch with shouldered gable, altered to form a bay window. One of several estate buildings designed for John, first Earl Brownlow, 1815-1853. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J & Antram N: Lincolnshire: London: 1964-1989: 135-136; Marsden J & Barber A: Belton House: London: 1985-1987: 46-58; Kerr M: Survey notes on National Trust properties in Belton: 1985-1989).

Listing NGR: SK9306739737