12 And 12A, Barkston Heath Lane

BELTON & MANTHORPE SK9339 BARKSTON HEATH LANE, Belton 1315-0/9/34 (South side) 21/09/79 Nos.12 AND 12A II

Estate cottages, perhaps intended as a schoolhouse, now houses. Dated 1828. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and steep pitched slate roof. Large gable, ridge, and external side wall stacks, each with square coped double flues. Tudor Revival style. Plinth, coped gables. 1 x 3 windows. L-plan. Windows are mainly C19 casements, with stone surrounds and mullions. Crowstepped facing gable with a stepped-head 3-light window with label mould. On either side, a Tudor arched gateway with moulded coping. Left return has on each floor a 3-light window flanked by single light windows. Those to the ground floor have cornices. Right return has a 2-light window, and a first floor single light oriel set across the return angle. Rear wing has a Tudor arched doorway. In the gable, two 2-light windows. One of several estate buildings for John, first Earl Brownlow, c1820-1830. Pevsner descibes this building as a schoolhouse. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J & Antram N: Lincolnshire: London: 1964-1989: 136).

Listing NGR: SK9312239663