Bedford Row Morva Bass Post Office
31, ELTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1222045
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Bedford Row Morva Bass Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- 31, ELTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1222045
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1988
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Mar-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Bedford Row Morva Bass Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- 31, ELTON ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- BEDFORD ROW, 25, 27 AND 29, ELTON ROAD
- Statutory Address 3:
- MORVA BASS, 33, ELTON ROAD
- Statutory Address 4:
- POST OFFICE, 23, ELTON 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:
- 31, ELTON ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- BEDFORD ROW, 25, 27 AND 29, ELTON ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- MORVA BASS, 33, ELTON ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE, 23, ELTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sibson-cum-Stibbington
- National Grid Reference:
- TL0763798911
Details
In the entry for
SIBSON-CUM-STIBBINGTON WANSFORT
ELTON ROAD
10/128 (east side)
No 23 (Post Office
Nos 25, 27 and 29
(Bedford Row), No 31 (The
Curious Junk Shop) and
No 3
GV
The address and the description shall be amended to read:
TL 0698 SIBSON-CUM-STIBBINGTON WANSFORD
ELTON ROAD
10/128 (east side)
No 23 (Post Office)
Nos 25, 27 and 29
(Bedford Row) No 31 and
No 33 (Morva Bass)
GV II
Two shops and one house formerly a shop, and row of 3 houses formerly 6 houses.
Dated 1826 on plaque in rear elevation; C20 alterations. Dressed limestone rubble
with ashlar and freestone dressings. Welsh slated, and Collyweston stone slated
roofs. 2 storeys, L-plan; main north-south range formerly with 3 shops and elip-
tical headed archway to left of centre giving access to range east of No 23. Main
range: Hipped roof with left hand stack and 2 ridge stacks each with sawtooth brick
cornices; 3 shop windows and doorways with rectangular fanlights and with reeded
pilasters and common entablatures. Door to No 23 double leafed, modern door to
No 31 and to No 33 a C20 replacement, one twelve-pane hung sash window to left hand
with flat ashlar arched head and flush keystone, 6 similar first floor windows and
2 with replacement casements. Range to rear with 3 brick stacks; ashlar band con-
tinuous over window arches and doors with flush keystone; 6 doorways, 2 with
original flush-panelled doors; 6 ground floor and first floor casement windows.
No 23 a grover's shop in 1841 census returns, and No 33 a tailor's shop in 1827.
Estate Maps. 1818, 1838, Bedford R.O.
Gilbert, J.L. Stibbington Church and Parish, 1978
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SIBSON-CUM-STIBBINGTON WANSFORD
TL 0698
ELTON ROAD
(East Side)
10/128 No. 23 (Post Office)
Nos. 25, 27 and 29
(Bedford Row), No.
31 (The Curious Junk
Shop) and No. 33
GV II
Two shops and one house formerly a shop, and row of three houses formerly six
houses. Dated 1826 on plaque in rear elevation; C20 alterations. Dressed
limestone rubble with ashlar and freestone dressings. Welsh slated, and
Collyweston stone slated roofs. Two storeys, L-plan; main north-south range
formerly with three shops and eliptical headed archway to left of centre
giving access to range east of No. 23. Main range: Hipped roof with left
hand stack and two ridge stacks each with sawtooth brick cornices; three shop
windows and doorways with rectangular fanlights and with reeded pilasters and
common entablatures. Door to No. 23 double leafed, door to No. 31 with four
flush panels and to No. 33 a C20 replacement, one twelve-paned hung sash
window to left hand with flat ashlar arched head and flush keystone, four
similar first floor windows and two with replacement sashes. Range to rear
with three brick stacks; ashlar band continuous over window arches and doors
with flush keystone; six doorways, two with original flush-panelled doors;
six ground floor and first floor casement windows. No. 23 a grocer's shop in
1841 census returns, and No. 33 a tailor's shop in 1827.
Estate Maps. 1818, 1838, Bedford R.O.
Gilbert, J.L. Stibbington Church and Parish, 1978
Listing NGR: TL0763798911
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 414096
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gilbert, J L, Stibbington Church and Parish, (1978)
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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