Listing
Search the List

What is Listing?

Listing Guidance

Apply for Listing

Missing Pieces Project

Blue Plaque Scheme
Listing

Find out about listed buildings and other protected sites, and search the National Heritage List for England (NHLE).

Find out about listing

Terracotta tiles on the roof of Saintoft Lodge, Newton-on-Rawcliffe, Ryedale, North Yorkshire. Grade II listed © Historic England Archive DP371715
Advice
Climate Change

Heritage at Risk

Your Home

Technical Guidance

Planning

Caring for Heritage

Constructive Conservation
Advice

See our extensive range of expert advice to help you care for and protect historic places.

Get our advice

A contractor cutting bricks for the wall of the partially-restored wild and natural walled garden at Warley Place, Brentwood. Explore our technical advice section © Historic England Archive DP313199
Research
Our Research Strategy and Agenda

Research Governance

Latest Research

Research Methods

Current Research

Research Results

Support & Collaboration

Inclusive Heritage

Heritage Counts
Research

Discover and use our high-quality applied research to support the protection and management of the historic environment.

Discover our research

Archaeologist Dr David Neal discussing his illustration of the mosaic being excavated at Rutland Roman Villa with members of the University of Leicester Archaeological Services team View image DP264265 © Historic England
Images & Books
Find Photos

Search All Publications

Buy Books

The Historic England Archive
Images & Books

Historic England holds an extensive range of publications and historic collections in its public archive covering the historic environment.

Browse our collections

Children play with a doll and a pram on the cobbled Church Path in Queen Camel, Somerset, in April 1953. At the far end of the path is the tower of the Church of St Barnabas, which dates to the 14th century. Photographer: John Gay Image reference: AA091596 © Historic England Archive
Services & Skills
Education

Grants

Our Planning Services

Training & Skills

Archive Services

Heritage Action Zones

Levelling Up Places Service
Services & Skills

Find out about services offered by Historic England for funding, planning, education and research, as well as training and skill development.

Learn about our services

Heritage Apprentices in a training session on the Researching The Historic Environment module and training in Architectural Photography. Find out more about Heritage Apprenticeships © Historic England Archive DP347660
What's New
News

In Your Area

Historic England Blog

Latest Research

Heritage Online Debate

Statements

Stay up to Date
What's New

Read about our current news, projects and campaigns nationally and in your area.

Catch up with what's new

Two horsemen reading The Sportsman, 30 Oct 1902, Farnborough, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire. Part of the Alfred Newton and Sons collection. Source Historic England Archive. BB98/02592
About Us
What We Do

Who We Are

How We Are Funded

Contact Us

Careers

Volunteer with Historic England
About Us

Historic England is the public body that helps people care for, enjoy and celebrate England's spectacular historic environment.

Find out more

Mountbatten House (formerly Gateway House), Basing View, Basingstoke, the former headquarters for the paper merchants Wiggins Teape by Arup Associates. Listed at Grade II. © Historic England
Sign in
Manage my account

Sign out

BELTON POST OFFICE AND ADJOINING SMITHY

BELTON POST OFFICE AND ADJOINING SMITHY, MAIN STREET

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298453
Date first listed:: 20-Sep-1979
List Entry Name:: BELTON POST OFFICE AND ADJOINING SMITHY
Statutory Address:: BELTON POST OFFICE AND ADJOINING SMITHY, MAIN STREET

User submitted image — Uploaded by Kevin Waterhouse This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
View all

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 2006-08-24
Reference:: IOE01/14789/21
Rights:: © Mr James Brown. Source: Historic England Archive

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298453
Date first listed:: 20-Sep-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

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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
Allibone, J, Anthony Salvin Pioneer of Gothic Revival Architecture 1799-1881, (1987), 163
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 135-136
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.