Belton Post Office and Adjoining Smithy
BELTON POST OFFICE AND ADJOINING SMITHY, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298453
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Belton Post Office and Adjoining Smithy
- Statutory Address:
- BELTON POST OFFICE AND ADJOINING SMITHY, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298453
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1979
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Belton Post Office and Adjoining Smithy
- Statutory Address 1:
- BELTON POST OFFICE AND ADJOINING SMITHY, MAIN STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BELTON POST OFFICE AND ADJOINING SMITHY, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- South Kesteven (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Belton and Manthorpe
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 92894 39563
Details
BELTON & MANTHORPE SK9239 MAIN STREET, Belton 1315-0/8/49 (North West side) 21/09/79 Belton Post Office and adjoining Smithy (Formerly Listed as: VILLAGE STREET, Belton (North West side) Smithy, Post Office and adjoining Cottage) GV II
Estate cottage, now a house, post office and smithy. Cottage C17, remodelled 1838; smithy 1838. Both by Anthony Salvin. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Cottage has 2 external gable stacks with coped square double flues. Smithy has a similar ridge stack. Jacobean Revival style. Cottage, to left, single storey plus attics; 2 window range. Ashlar plinth, quoins, coped gables with kneelers. 2 through-eaves dormers with on corbels, with shouldered shaped gables and ball finials, each with a 2-light window. Below, to left, a 3-light window with a heavy cornice. To right, a canted stone bay window with hipped roof and a 3-light window. All these windows are casements with stone surrounds and chamfered mullions. INTERIOR has a C17 chamfered span beam with stops, and a similar beam now boxed in. To right, a single storey link building containing the post office. Central half-glazed door with overlight, flanked to left by a single light window, both with stone surrounds. 2 gabled roof ventilators. To right, a segmental arch with half-glazed double doors to the shoeing floor. The single storey cross wing forming the smithy has shoulderd shaped gables with ball finials. At each end, a 5-light window with stone mullions and surround. Above the front window, a scroll, and above it, in the gable, a stone horseshoe enclosing a datestone. Brick lined interior has a transverse arch containing the flues to 2 forges, and king post roof. One of several estate buildings by Salvin for John, first Earl Brownlow, of Belton House. The smithy is complete and in use. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Antrum N: Lincolnshire: London: 1964-1989: 135-136; Kerr M: Survey notes on National Trust properties in Belton: 1985-1989; Allibone J: Anthony Salvin: Cambridge: 1988-: 163).
Listing NGR: SK9289439563
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382922
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 135-136
Allibone, J, Anthony Salvin Pioneer of Gothic Revival Architecture 1799-1881, (1987), 163
Other
Kerr, M, Survey notes on National Trust properties in Belton, (1985-1989)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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