Old Reading Room
OLD READING ROOM, LOW ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1194841
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Old Reading Room
- Statutory Address:
- OLD READING ROOM, LOW ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1194841
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1979
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Old Reading Room
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD READING ROOM, LOW ROAD
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:
- OLD READING ROOM, LOW ROAD
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 92034 37598
Details
BELTON & MANTHORPE SK9237 LOW ROAD, Manthorpe 1315-0/11/135 (South East side) 21/09/79 Old Reading Room Formerly Listed as: LOW ROAD, Manthorpe Former Reading Room) II
Former village reading room, now a house. Mid C19, converted and altered late C20. Coursed squared stone with ashlar and brick dressings and pantile roof with plain brick side wall stack. Tudor Revival style. Single storey with inserted attic; 3 window range. Facing gable with crowstepped coping and spike finial has a large 3-light window with chamfered stone mullions and 18-pane sashes. Above it, a slit breather. Right return has 3 renewed round arched glazing bar windows, the central one flanked by small single light windows. Above, a C20 gabled dormer. To right, a reglazed porch with a coped gross-gable. A recreational building provided for workers on the Belton estate by the Brownlow family of Belton House. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J & Antram N: Lincolnshire: London: 1964-1989: 550).
Listing NGR: SK9203437598
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382912
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 550
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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