Bluntisham House
BLUNTISHAM HOUSE, RECTORY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1162482
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Bluntisham House
- Statutory Address:
- BLUNTISHAM HOUSE, RECTORY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1162482
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Nov-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Bluntisham House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLUNTISHAM HOUSE, RECTORY ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BLUNTISHAM HOUSE, RECTORY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bluntisham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 36817 74494
Details
BLUNTISHAM RECTORY ROAD 1. 5140 (north side) Bluntisham House (formerly listed as The Rectory) TL 36 74 17/8 24.10.51 II* 2. Circa 1720, Rectory, with later C18 wings and C19 additions and alterations. Original T-plan. Two-storeys and attics. Yellow brick, plain tile hipped roofs. Three original stacks with moulded brick courses. Stone capped parapet to slightly projecting central block. Range of five sash windows in cambered gauged arches with glazing bars at first and attic floors. Similar sash windows flank central limestone doorcase with shouldered bolection moulded architrave, engaged fluted Corinthian columns, and entablature with monograph. (Removed from Slepe Hall, St Ives 1848). Banding between storeys. Parapet to two-storey wings with Venetian windows in gauged brick arches at ground floor and hung sash windows at first floor. Interior: Fine original open-string staircase with turned balusters, pair of newels at first floor with bosses and ball finials. Two late C17 bolection moulded door- cases with six panelled doors. Colonade to alcove in hall with two fluted Doric columns in square-sectioned pilasters. Dorothy Sayers b. 1893 lived at the Rectory from 1897 until circa 1919. Pre 1745 'Dr Knight has built a house' on coat of arms over door now removed. Rev Tillard made alterations circa 1800 and Rev Baines inserted Slepe Hall doorway in 1848 (C F Tebbutt 1941).
Listing NGR: TL3681774494
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 53768
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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