Description

SE 7806-7906 BELTON HIGH STREET
(east side)

18/19 No 107
(formerly listed as The
1.3.67 Old Belton Post Office)

GV II

House. Late C18 - early C19 with minor C19 alterations. Brown brick in
Flemish bond. Pantile roof. Double-depth plan with 2-room, central
entrance-hall west front. 2 storeys, 3 bays; symmetrical. Central bay
breaks forward. Rendered plinth, incised in imitation of ashlar. Stone
step to pedimented doorcase with slim panelled pilasters carrying deep
entablature with dosserets bearing urns in relief, open pediment with
moulded cornice and reeded frieze, round-headed opening with ram's head,
garland and oval paterae, and panelled door (4 fielded panels over plain
panel) beneath moulded lintel and plain fanlight in reveal. 16-pane sashes
in flush wooden architraves with sills beneath stucco flat arches. Central
pedimented bay has C19-C20 rebuilt open pediment with oculus with glazing
bars and plain stone coping. Stepped and cogged brick eaves cornice to side
bays. Hipped roof with pair of corniced roof stacks, upper sections
rebuilt. Right return, 2 bays, has pair of 16-pane ground-floor sashes in
flush wooden architraves with sills beneath brick flat arches, similar
first-floor window to right and blind window panel to left. Left return has
similar blind ground- and first-floor window panels to right, and 16-pane
sliding sash to ground floor left. Interior. Entrance hall has corniced
dado rail, round-headed opening to rear stairhall. Good open-well staircase
with ramped corniced handrail, slender drop column balusters and newels, and
profiled cheek-pieces. Basket-arched opening to upper hall. Corniced dado
rail to ground-floor front rooms; round-headed alcove to left with ribbed
archivolt. Segmental-arched cupboard with 6-panel door to ground-floor rear
right. Original stone chimney-pieces and iron grates to first-floor
bedrooms.

Listing NGR: SE7843706397

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26365714

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)