The Old School and Adjoining Boundary Walls
THE OLD SCHOOL AND ADJOINING BOUNDARY WALLS, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187956
- Date first listed:
- 14-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School and Adjoining Boundary Walls
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD SCHOOL AND ADJOINING BOUNDARY WALLS, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187956
- Date first listed:
- 14-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School and Adjoining Boundary Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD SCHOOL AND ADJOINING BOUNDARY WALLS, 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:
- THE OLD SCHOOL AND ADJOINING BOUNDARY WALLS, 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:
- SK9297639604
Details
In the entry for
BELTON & MANTHORPE MAIN STREET,
SK 9239
Belton (north west
side)
1315-0/8/65 The Old School
and adjoining
boundary
14/11/94 Walls
GV II
The first sentence of the description shall be amended to read
"School, now a house and horologist's studio, and adjoining boundary walls"
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BELTON & MANTHORPE
SK9239 MAIN STREET, Belton
1315-0/8/65 (North West side)
The Old School and adjoining
boundary walls
GV II
School, now a house and workshop, and adjoining boundary
walls. Dated 1826 and 1838, with C20 alterations. By Anthony
Salvin. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and slate
roof. Central external rear wall stack, formerly with 5 round
coped flues, now reduced to one. Single external stack of the
same design on the left gable. Tudor Revival style. Plinth,
quoins, shouldered coped gables with kneelers. Single storey
plus attics; 5 window range. Windows have stone surrounds,
chamfered mullions and cornices. Most have diamond pane
glazing. Central porch with a through-eaves dormer with
crowstepped gable and finial, and a single light window.
Moulded doorcase with cornice and 4-centred arched board door.
Above it, a cross, and a scroll with Latin inscription.
Beyond, single windows, then larger cross casements. Right
gable has a 2-light window and is topped with a gabled single
bellcote. Below, a square porch with coped balustrade and
doorway similar to the front. Left gable has reglazed single
light windows flanking the stack. Beyond, a single storey
service building with monopitch corrugated iron roof, single
door and window. Outside, at the front, 2 lengths of dwarf
wall with chamfered coping and rounded corners, formerly
topped with a railing. At the rear, a coursed squared stone
boundary wall approx 2.5m high and 15m long, with a stepped
coping and an off-centre chamfered doorway.
An educational building provided for workers on the Belton
estate by the Brownlow family. One of several estate buildings
by Salvin for John, first Earl Brownlow, 1815-1853, of Belton
House.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J & Antram 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-: 164).
Listing NGR: SK9297639604
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382938
- 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), 164
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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