Description

SIBSON-CUM-STIBBINGTON STIBBINGTON
TL 0898
CHURCH LANE
(East Side)
11/119 No. 41 (The
Rectory)
25.9.51
GV II*
House formerly the rectory. Early to mid C17 (qv The Haycock, Wansford,
Cambs.) with late C18 and mid C19 alterations and additions. Coursed
limestone rubble with freestone and ashlar dressings. Collyweston stone
slated roofs. Two storeys with attics, main east-west range with original
three unit plan and cross passage to east end; one storey and attic and
single storey kitchen and dairy ranges to east, staircase wing to north and
porch to rear entrance mid C19. South facade: Parapet gables with end stack
to right hand, ridge stack with four shafts and tall additional side stack to
north-east with two shafts of ashlar, rebuilt brick stack to kitchen range.
Plastered coved eaves cornice with moulded stone string; continuous moulded
label extended into kitchen range; chamfered plinth. Ovolo moulded mullioned
and transomed casement windows, two of three lights and one with two lights
and similar lights above doorway to right hand with C19 panelled door; C19
stone mullioned bay window to left hand. Five first floor three-light and one
two-light ovolo moulded mullioned and transomed casement windows. Five
segmental headed dormer windows. North facade: Blocked openings of original
windows and former doorways, reused C15 window tracery; C19 porch with
parapet gable supported on shaped corbels surmounted by Gothic finials;
chamfered jambs and head to doorway with panelled door. Interior: Early C17
staircase, rebuilt, with closed string and turned balusters; four stone
chimney pieces with mannerist detail and moulded stone cornices to central
ground and first floor rooms, two with over mantels with sunk panelled
pilasters. Sealed kitchen hearth originally with baking oven; inserted
partitions with C18 panelled doors and C17 boarded attic doors; staggered butt
purlin roof.

V.C.H. Huntingdonshire, p217
R.C.H.M. Huntingdonshire, p235
Pevsner: Buildings of England, p348
Huntingdon Archd. Records. Terrier and Map. 1707

Listing NGR: TL0904198632

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17544149

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