Belmont Post Office

STILTON HIGH STREET TL 1689 (West Side) 10/55 No. 6 (Belmont) and 13.12.57 No. 8 (Post Office)

GV II

Two houses and shop, formerly one house. Built c.1740 for Mr Le Grice, refronted and altered early to mid C19. Yellow gault brick facade with gauged red brick and moulded stone dressings and red brick side and rear walls. Double pile welsh slated roofs with parapet gables and four end stacks. Plain facade parapet with enriched moulded stone cornice. Two storeys, attic and cellar. Former symemtrical facade of five bays altered by additional doorway to right hand of main entrance approached by three steps with six flush-panelled door and patterned glazing bars to round headed fanlight; moulded stone architrave and cornice. Three ground floor four-paned recessed hung sash windows and four similar first floor windows with central round-headed window with side lights. Interior: central staircase hall with original open string staircase with turned balusters. Staircase and landing partitioned from rooms to rear with central double panelled doors; other C18 and C19 details include an C18 corner cupboard with raised and fielded panels.

Listing NGR: TL1626289263