Stibbington House
STIBBINGTON HOUSE, ELTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1222415
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Stibbington House
- Statutory Address:
- STIBBINGTON HOUSE, ELTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1222415
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Stibbington House
- Statutory Address 1:
- STIBBINGTON HOUSE, 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:
- STIBBINGTON HOUSE, 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:
- TL0757098605
Details
In the entry for:-
SIBSON-CUM-STIBBINGTON WANSFORD
ELTON ROAD
(west side)
Stibbington House
10/135
The fifth sentence of the description shall be amended to read:- "Shallow pitched
hipped welsh slated roofs with deep boarded eves, summounted by a wooden octagonal
belvedere with glazed round arched arcade and with clock faces in north and south
facets."
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SIBSON-CUM-STIBBINGTON WANSFORD
TL 0698
ELTON ROAD
(West Side)
10/135 Stibbington House
25.9.51
GV II
House formerly the miller's house to Wansford Paper Mill. Rebuilt after a
fire c.1805, with additions and alterations from c.1825. Clock belvedere 1844
and clock by John Brumhead of Stamford. Coursed limestone with freestone
dressings. Shallow pitched hipped Welsh slated roofs with deep boarded eaves,
surmounted by a wooden octagonal belvedere with glazed round arched arcade and
with clock face in north facet. Symmetrical brick stacks. Three storeys and
basement with single storey drawing room addition to west of original square
plan. Entrance facade of three symmetrical bays approached by stone steps to
verandah returning to side elevations; patterned cast iron piers and frieze
support tented metal canopy. Mid C19 siting of Ionic pilastered architrave to
entrance doorway with six-panelled glazed door and cast iron patterned glazing
bars to rectangular fanlight. Two garden casements, three first floor and
second floor recessed hung sash windows with flat gauged stone arches.
Interior details early C19 with later C19 alterations; open string staircase
with plain and turned balusters. The mill was closed in 1859/60 after an
explosion in 1855, the grounds were landscaped by L.C. Gilbert in 1927 for
G.W. Abbott., The original building is illustrated in a bill head of Thomas
Nelson, paper maker c.1830, the original portico may have been reused in the
door architrave.
V.C.H. Huntingdonshire, p217
Pevsner: Buildings of England, p362
Gilbert, J.L. Stibbington Church and Parish, 1978
Gilbert, J.L. Wansford Paper Mills
Listing NGR: TL0757098605
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 414524
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, Proby, G, The Victoria History of the County of Huntingdon, (1936), 217
Gilbert, J L, Stibbington Church and Parish, (1978)
Gilbert, J L, Wansford Paper Mills, ()
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough, (1968), 362
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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