Description

SIBSON-CUM-STIBBINGTON WANSFORD TL 0698 LONDON ROAD (South Side) 10/146 No. 24 ( Drayton Place) GV II House, formerly house and shop. Circa 1820. Dressed limestone with ashlar and freestone dressings; brick in rear elevation. Welsh slate low pitched pyramidal roof, rear brick stack. Three storeys and cellar, square plan with main facade and shop entrance facing north. Former shop with central doorway sealed and patterned rectangular fanlight approached by stone steps and two large windows (originally with small panes); common entablature enriched by deeply moulded wooden cornice. Three first floor recessed sixteen-paned hung sash windows with flat stone arches and flush key stones and stone cills. Three similar second floor windows with twelve panes. West entrance to house with six-flush-panelled door and rectangular fanlight approached by stone steps. Possibly built for Thomas Smith, a grocer,in 1828.

Bedford Estate Maps 1818, 1838. Bedford R.O. Gilbert, J.L. Stibbington Church and Parish, 1978

Listing NGR: TL0760098987

External Links

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