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Belton House is a Grade I listed country house in the parish of Belton near Grantham in Lincolnshire, England, built between 1685 and 1687 by Sir John Brownlow, 3rd Baronet. It is surrounded by formal gardens and a series of avenues leading to follies within a larger wooded park .
John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow, owner of Belton House from 1807 to 1853 commissioned Salvin to undertake improvements to the Belton Estate in 1838. [1] Salvin's additions included a public house, a cross in Belton Village, cottages and houses for a gamekeeper and a blacksmith, a hermitage and the boathouse on Boathouse Pond. [1]
The Saxon meaning of Belton is "a bell-shaped hollow". [citation needed] The village is significant for the 1686 Grade I listed Belton House. [2] [3] The house is the property of the National Trust and is open to the public. [4] A church at Belton is recorded in the Domesday Book.
Belton House is a country house near Grantham, Lincolnshire, England. The mansion is surrounded by formal gardens and a series of avenues leading to follies within a greater wooded park . Belton has been described as a compilation of all that is finest of Carolean architecture, the only truly vernacular style of architecture that England had ...
Sir John Brownlow, 1st Baronet (c. 1594–24 November 1679) of Belton, near Grantham in Lincolnshire, was twice Sheriff of Lincolnshire [1] and on 26 July 1641 was created a baronet "of Belton in the County of Lincoln". He died without progeny when his baronetcy became extinct.
Belton House, the ancestral home of the Cust family. Brownlow was Mayor of Grantham from 1934 to 1935. He also served as Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire from 1936 to 1950. During the 1930s, Brownlow was a close friend and equerry to the Prince of Wales, and later Lord-in-waiting when he became King Edward VIII.
In 1668 he succeeded his father as the 3rd baronet, of Humby, and in 1679 he inherited the estate of Belton, with others, from his childless great-uncle Sir John Brownlow, 1st Baronet. He built the present Belton House between 1685 and 1687, creating new gardens and lakes.
These rooms which were entirely in main block of the house, and constituted distinct servants' quarters, were to be the forerunner of the service wing. By 1688, the smaller window sizes of the lowest and uppermost floors of Belton House show early signs that servants were confined to delegated areas. The servants enjoyed the same view from the ...