Belmont

Belmont is a five-bay, three-storey double-pile house likely dating from around 1795, with later additions. The house is constructed of rubble with a stuccoed facade, covered by a slate roof. Plain bargeboards are visible at the gable ends. Rendered chimneys are located on both the primary piles and the front section of the additions. The original symmetrical three-window section features a raised central entrance accessed by curved sandstone stairs of the Perron type, which include elegant wrought iron balusters with an intersecting design, scrolled rail ends, a six-panel door with raised and fielded panels, a plain doorcase, and an elegant segmental fanlight. A late 19th-century open porch with a flat roof, moulded cornice, and chamfered posts stands before the entrance. Sash windows with six panes above and two panes below are found on all floors; those on the upper floor are beneath the eaves and slightly smaller. A modern part-glazed door is recessed within a window opening below the main entrance. A classical key-pattern stucco frieze runs between the first and second floors. A two-bay addition to the right is slightly recessed, although the roofline is continuous, with windows and frieze matching the earlier sections. To the left, on the ground (basement) floor, is a service entrance with a recessed six-panel door and rectangular overlight. The rear pile is narrower and unrendered, featuring cambered brick arches to irregular openings, containing a mix of two-light small-pane sash windows, a twelve-pane sash, and leaded windows – one of two lights, the other a wooden cross window; modern glazing is present elsewhere. Three entrances are present on the ground floor, with one formerly a window now open, the others boarded. A contemporary cobbled service yard with rubble revettment walls is located at the rear, and a further five twelve-pane sash windows are found at the right-hand, twin-gabled end, alongside two two-light small-pane sashes and evidence of a blocked window.

Inside, an acanthus plaster frieze adorns the raised ground-floor hall, and a similar acanthus and guioche plaster cornice features in the front-facing room to the left. A contemporary grey marble fireplace with reeded decoration is present in the front room on the right, with a segmental arched recess to the rear wall, suggesting a former dining room. A two-panel (raised and fielded) door is located to the right of the fireplace. Plain architraves and six-panelled doors are found throughout the house. A full-height stair rises from the former ground floor (now basement) to the upper floor; this is a late 17th/early 18th-century "well" stair of oak with columner balusters and moulded rail, with the rail sloping upwards at the top of each flight. It also features scrolled tread-ends and a simple, relocated dog gate to the basement flight, originally at the bottom. The landing on the top floor has five doors, four of which are primary, with two raised and fielded panels and plain architraves. Slate flags cover the basement floor, and further six-panelled and old boarded doors are present. The interior includes ogee stopped-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, a wide fireplace with a chamfered bressummer, and a blocked fireplace.