Description

SIBSON-CUM-STIBBINGTON GREAT NORTH ROAD,
TL 09 NE Sibson
(South-West Side)

1/104 Sibson House Hotel
GV II
Hotel formerly an inn and farmhouse. 1762-4 for the Duke of Bedford; stone
mason Thomas Thompson, carpenter William Bradshaw; early C19 extension and
alteration; C20 renovation and additions. Coursed limestone blocks with
freestone and ashlar dressings. Collyweston stone slated roofs. Two storeys
with double pile extension to north-west and rear extensions. Parapet gables
with ashlar end stacks, two canted bay windows with ovolo moulded mullions and
stone slated roofs flank main entrance with boarded door to left of centre and
one three-light mullioned casement window to right hand. Four recessed first
floor casement windows with upper lights, replacing former cross-framed
windows, dovecot at first floor with framed wooden flight entry, one ground
floor and two first floor wooden casement windows to extension. The inn was
recorded as The Wheatsheaf from 1769, the building accounts mention the re-use
of material from a building formerly on the site.

Bedford Estate Records, Bedford R.0.
Pickford, C J Sibson House, unpublished. Bedford R.O.

Listing NGR: TL0965797485

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26516391

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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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