Stables To Belton Park

BELTON & MANTHORPE SK9239 BELTON PARK, Belton 1315-0/8/74 (North West side) 19/02/52 Stables to Belton House (Formerly Listed as: BELTON PARK, Belton Stables north-west of Belton House) GV I

Former stables, now tearooms. c1688, with late C19 addition and C20 alterations. By William Stanton, Master Mason. Coursed squared stone with ashlar front and dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs. 4 square coped ashlar ridge stacks. Plinth and moulded eaves cornice. 2 storeys plus attics; 11 window range, arranged 1 : 4 : 1 :4 : 1. Windows are mainly casements with diamond-pane glazing, moulded stone surrounds and mullions. Courtyard front has projecting centre and end bays, the hipped end bays with quoins and first floor bands. Pedimented centre has a moulded pedimented doorcase flanked by round arched niches and with a panelled door and overlight. Flanking ground floor windows are larger cross casements. Left return has 4 round arched carriage entrances with panelled double doors, imposts and keystones. Above, two box dormers. Right return has 2 reglazed 2-light casements, and below, a reglazed segment arched window, flanked to left by a plank door and to right by a canopied opening to a shoeing floor. To right, a loose box, C19, with coped gable and finials, topped with an ogee domed octagonal cupola. Central panelled door flanked by cross casements. Rear elevation, to Belton House Drive, has projecting centre and end bays with coped gables, kneelers and finials. Flush quoins and modillion eaves. In the centre, a 2-light window with above it a crest under a cornice, and below it, a moulded cornice with doorcase and panelled door. Each return has a 2-light window above and a larger cross casement below. Flanking bays have 3 windows on each floor. End bays have a loft door with a landing on brackets, and a cross casement below. INTERIOR has some early stalls, all with turned wooden columns. Those to left of the entrance carry an entablature, those to the right, segmental arches. The latter also have shaped partitions and recessed round mangers. Both sides have moulded doorcases with pulvinated friezes and cornices. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J & Antram N: Lincolnshire: London: 1964-1989: 139).

Listing NGR: SK9285939394