Description

SIBSON-CUM-STIBBINGTON WANSFORD
TL 0698
ELTON ROAD
(West Side)
10/136 Workshop, former
soll to Wansford
Paper Mill c.26
metres west of
Stibbington House
GV II
Workshop, formerly the soll (rag sorting house) of the paper mill. Possibly
early C19, with late C19 and C20 alterations. Coursed limestone rubble with
freestone dressings. Low pitched hipped Collyweston stone slated roof. Two
storeys, entrance facing south with glazed door to right hand and casement
window to left hand, two large first floor windows with small panes and
segmental brick arches. The soll may have survived the fire in the mill of
1805; it is illustrated in a bill head c.1830 with a double hipped roof, an
explosion closed the mill in 1855 and the mill buildings were demolished in
1867. Newspaper was manufactured from bleached rags at the mill for the
London Times and Stamford Mercury.

Mill Records. Delapre Abbey Northampton R.0.
Gilbert, J.L. Stibbington Church and Parish. 1978
Gilbert, J.L. Wansford Paper Mills

Listing NGR: TL0752498602

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26564336

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