The Old House and Rear Boundary Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1957. House, boundary wall. 3 related planning applications.
The Old House and Rear Boundary Wall
- WRENN ID
- eternal-moulding-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 December 1957
- Type
- House, boundary wall
- Address
- The Old House and Rear Boundary Wall, 16, London Road, Sibson-Cum-Stibbington, PE8 6JB
- OS grid reference
- TL 075 990
- Coordinates
- 52.57834, -0.41434
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old House and rear boundary wall is a house built in 1848 for the Duke of Bedford's steward, located on London Road in Sibson-cum-Stibbington. The structure is made of dressed limestone rubble with freestone and ashlar dressings, topped with Welsh slated roofs and features ashlar gable end stacks. It stands two storeys high with an attic and cellars, and a rear addition from around 1850 that completes its double pile plan.
The facade is symmetrical and consists of three bays. The entrance is marked by a pilastered stone architrave with three-block rustication leading to a round-headed arch, which contains a four-panelled door with a patterned round-headed fanlight above. There is an ashlar plinth that runs continuously around two two-storey bay windows, which have chamfered reveals and nine-paned hung sash windows. Above the entrance, there is a central blind window with a moulded cornice. The house also has two 20th-century casement dormer windows and a cast iron boot scraper beside the entrance.
Inside, the details are from the 19th century, although the original plan has been slightly altered at the rear. Unattributed plans that are similar in detail can be found in the Bedford Estate records at Bedford Record Office.
Local climate
The Old House and Rear Boundary Wall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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