Bluntisham House

Bluntisham House, formerly known as The Rectory, is a significant building dating from around 1720, with later 18th century wings and 19th century additions and alterations. It features an original T-plan layout and stands two storeys high with attics. The house is constructed of yellow brick and has plain tile hipped roofs. There are three original stacks with moulded brick courses, and a stone-capped parapet on the slightly projecting central block. The façade includes a range of five sash windows set in cambered gauged arches with glazing bars on the first and attic floors. Flanking the central entrance is a limestone doorcase with a shouldered bolection moulded architrave, engaged fluted Corinthian columns, and an entablature featuring a monograph. This doorway was relocated from Slepe Hall in St Ives in 1848. The building has banding between the storeys, and the two-storey wings have parapets with Venetian windows in gauged brick arches at the ground floor and hung sash windows at the first floor.

Inside, there is a fine original open-string staircase with turned balusters, and a pair of newels at the first floor adorned with bosses and ball finials. Two late 17th century bolection moulded doorcases with six-panelled doors are present, along with a colonnade to an alcove in the hall featuring two fluted Doric columns set in square-sectioned pilasters. Notably, Dorothy Sayers, born in 1893, lived at the Rectory from 1897 until around 1919. A coat of arms over the door, which has since been removed, indicated that "Dr Knight has built a house" before 1745. Rev Tillard made alterations around 1800, and Rev Baines inserted the Slepe Hall doorway in 1848, as noted by C F Tebbutt in 1941.