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Journal of Architectural Conservation
Volume 15, Issue 2, July 2009
Belton Boathouse
A Review of its Repair and Restoration for the National Trust
Nick Cox
Paper Summary
Belton boathouse (listed Grade II) is an early work of Anthony Salvin and a rare surviving example of a boathouse in the Swiss style. Having suffered severe decay in the twentieth century, it has now been carefully repaired and restored.
The design of the building uses all the usual main materials of construction but in a decorative manner. The roof is made of Collyweston stone roof tiles, each hand shaped into a fish scale; the plastering on the exterior is in a high relief basket weave pattern; the joinery is all wood grained and the leaded-light windows have a decorative latticework of lead cames and both tinted and etched glass.
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Figure 9 The finished Collyweston fish-scale roof.
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Nick Cox
Nick Cox is an architect in private practice who has been working on historic buildings for 20 years. He trained at Cambridge University and Oxford Polytechnic and was awarded a SPAB Scholarship in 1990. He currently runs his own practice in Oxfordshire.
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