The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY, 41, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1222331
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, 41, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1222331
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY, 41, CHURCH LANE
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:
- THE OLD RECTORY, 41, CHURCH LANE
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:
- TL 09041 98632
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 414087
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 235
Page, W, Proby, G, The Victoria History of the County of Huntingdon, (1936), 217
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough, (1968), 348
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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