Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26516747

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)