Bluntisham House

BLUNTISHAM RECTORY ROAD 1. 5140 (north side) Bluntisham House (formerly listed as The Rectory) TL 36 74 17/8 24.10.51 II* 2. Circa 1720, Rectory, with later C18 wings and C19 additions and alterations. Original T-plan. Two-storeys and attics. Yellow brick, plain tile hipped roofs. Three original stacks with moulded brick courses. Stone capped parapet to slightly projecting central block. Range of five sash windows in cambered gauged arches with glazing bars at first and attic floors. Similar sash windows flank central limestone doorcase with shouldered bolection moulded architrave, engaged fluted Corinthian columns, and entablature with monograph. (Removed from Slepe Hall, St Ives 1848). Banding between storeys. Parapet to two-storey wings with Venetian windows in gauged brick arches at ground floor and hung sash windows at first floor. Interior: Fine original open-string staircase with turned balusters, pair of newels at first floor with bosses and ball finials. Two late C17 bolection moulded door- cases with six panelled doors. Colonade to alcove in hall with two fluted Doric columns in square-sectioned pilasters. Dorothy Sayers b. 1893 lived at the Rectory from 1897 until circa 1919. Pre 1745 'Dr Knight has built a house' on coat of arms over door now removed. Rev Tillard made alterations circa 1800 and Rev Baines inserted Slepe Hall doorway in 1848 (C F Tebbutt 1941).

Listing NGR: TL3681774494