Bellplot House And Attached Walls

Bellplot House is a house dating to around 1840, with alterations made around 1880. It’s constructed of squared flint with vermiculated Bath stone dressings and vermiculated quoins, and has a slate roof with brick stacks. The building has an L-shaped plan, with later infill creating a square form and a single-storey extension to the right. It has two storeys and originally three windows across the front. First-floor windows are 8/12-pane sashes set in moulded architraves with console sills. The ground floor features a 12/12-pane sash in a plain surround to the centre, flanked by slightly protruding rectangular bays, each with a pair of 12/12-pane sashes to the front and no side windows. A rectangular porch with vermiculated quoins and a moulded cornice is on the left return. The hipped roof has wide eaves supported by brackets and rolled lead hips. There are two tall brick stacks to each return.

The interior retains an early 19th-century style, but with significant alterations around 1880. A large entrance hall contains an open-string staircase with carved brackets and turned balusters. Front rooms have original reeded cornices alongside later 1880s skirtings and picture rails. The house has 4-panel doors on the ground floor and 6-panel doors on the first floor.

A flint wall runs along the street frontage, consisting of seven slightly ramped sections connected by piers with laced limestone quoins and moulded caps. 20th-century gates and gatepiers have been repositioned on the left side. A limestone rubble wall, approximately 120 metres long, is attached to the right and extends northwards.