BEDE HOUSE AND ADJOINING SCREEN WALL

BEDE HOUSE AND ADJOINING SCREEN WALL, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298452
Date first listed:: 19-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:: BEDE HOUSE AND ADJOINING SCREEN WALL
Statutory Address:: BEDE HOUSE AND ADJOINING SCREEN WALL, MAIN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298452
Date first listed:: 19-Feb-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 14-Nov-1994
List Entry Name:: BEDE HOUSE AND ADJOINING SCREEN WALL
Statutory Address 1:: BEDE HOUSE AND ADJOINING SCREEN WALL, MAIN STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BEDE HOUSE AND ADJOINING SCREEN WALL, 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 93017 39630

Details

BELTON & MANTHORPE SK9339 MAIN STREET, Belton 1315-0/9/45 (West side) 19/02/52 Bede Houses and adjoining screen wall (Formerly Listed as: VILLAGE STREET Bede Houses) II

Almshouses and attached screen wall. Dated 1659, raised and remodelled 1827, with internal alterations c1935. For Alice, Lady Brownlow, remodelled for the first Earl Brownlow. Coursed squared stone, with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs. 2 coped ashlar gable stacks with square flues, and 2 similar ridge stacks with double flues. Quoins, coped main gables with kneelers with ball finials. Single storey; 5 window range. Half-H plan. Windows are stone mullioned casements with ovolo mullions and cornices. Some have C19 lattice glazing bars. Central ashlar doorcase with board door, flanked by single 3-light windows. In each return, a similar doorcase flanked on the outer side by a 3-light window. Each gable also has a 3-light window. Beyond, short walls with ramped coping, screening a single cell projection, originally a larder. The wings are linked by a screen wall with round arched open arcade and moulded coping. In the centre, an ashlar gateway with a round topped gable and 3 ball finials, inscribed "Piae Senectae Domus". Wrought-iron gate. These almshouses were originally intended to house 6 women, but were remodelled as 2 houses c1935. A charitable building provided for workers on the Belton estate by the Brownlow family of Belton House. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J & Antrum N: Lincolnshire: London: 1964-1989: 135-136; Kerr M: Survey notes on National Trust properties in Belton: 1985-1989; Tinniswood A: Belton House, Lincolnshire (National Trust Guide): London: 1992-).

Listing NGR: SK9301739630

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Legacy System number:: 382918
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 135-136
Tinniswood, A , Belton House Lincolnshire, (1992)
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.