Bellmount Tower is a Grade II* listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. Viewing tower. 3 related planning applications.
Bellmount Tower
- WRENN ID
- peeling-floor-solstice
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Kesteven
- Constituency
- Grantham and Bourne MP: Gareth Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Viewing tower
- Address
- Bellmount Tower, Belton Park, Belton and Manthorpe, NG32 2LS
- OS grid reference
- SK 948 388
- Coordinates
- 52.93837, -0.5894
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bellmount Tower is a viewing tower designed in the form of a tall arch, built in the mid-18th century and remodeled around 1780. It was damaged by fire in 1841 and restored around 1989. The tower was created by Samuel Smith and the mason William Grey. It is constructed of coursed squared stone, partly rendered, and features a hipped slate roof topped with a turned wooden balustrade and wide coved eaves.
The structure has two stages, with a tall round-headed archway that includes a keystone and impost bands. Beneath the arch, there are rebated round-headed doorways on either side. The upper stage features a Venetian window with bracket keystones for the sidelights, along with two small round windows above. The rear of the tower has similar window arrangements, including a blank Venetian window. On either side of the tower, there are stepped brick buttresses, with the right buttress containing stair lights in the angle.
Originally, the building had wings that were removed around 1780 on the advice of Philip Yorke. Bellmount Tower is one of several estate buildings commissioned by Sir John Brownlow, Viscount Tyrconnel, of Belton House, between 1702 and 1754. It is located within Belton Park, which is registered as grade I on the Gardens Register.
Local climate
Bellmount Tower 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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