Bedford Row Morva Bass Post Office

Two shops and one house formerly a shop, and a row of three houses formerly six houses, located on the east side of Elton Road in Sibson-cum-Stibbington. Dated 1826 on a plaque in the rear elevation, the building retains twentieth-century alterations. The construction consists of dressed limestone rubble with ashlar and freestone dressings. The roofs are Welsh slated and Collyweston stone slated.

The building is arranged on an L-plan with two storeys. The main north-south range was formerly divided into three shops and features an elliptical-headed archway to the left of centre, which provides access to a range east of No. 23. The main range has a hipped roof with a left-hand stack and two ridge stacks, each with sawtooth brick cornices. Three shop windows and doorways feature rectangular fanlights with reeded pilasters and common entablatures. The door to No. 23 is double-leafed. The door to No. 31 has four flush panels, while the door to No. 33 is a twentieth-century replacement. One twelve-paned hung sash window to the left hand has a flat ashlar arched head and flush keystone. Four similar first-floor windows are present, and two others have replacement sashes.

The rear range contains three brick stacks. An ashlar band runs continuously over the window arches and doors with flush keystone detail. There are six doorways, two of which retain original flush-panelled doors, and six ground-floor and first-floor casement windows.

According to census records, No. 23 was a grocer's shop in 1841, and No. 33 was a tailor's shop in 1827. Estate maps from 1818 and 1838 are held at the Bedford Record Office. Reference: Gilbert, J.L. Stibbington Church and Parish, 1978.