The Old Rectory

SIBSON-CUM-STIBBINGTON STIBBINGTON TL 0898 CHURCH LANE (East Side) 11/119 No. 41 (The Rectory) 25.9.51 GV II* House formerly the rectory. Early to mid C17 (qv The Haycock, Wansford, Cambs.) with late C18 and mid C19 alterations and additions. Coursed limestone rubble with freestone and ashlar dressings. Collyweston stone slated roofs. Two storeys with attics, main east-west range with original three unit plan and cross passage to east end; one storey and attic and single storey kitchen and dairy ranges to east, staircase wing to north and porch to rear entrance mid C19. South facade: Parapet gables with end stack to right hand, ridge stack with four shafts and tall additional side stack to north-east with two shafts of ashlar, rebuilt brick stack to kitchen range. Plastered coved eaves cornice with moulded stone string; continuous moulded label extended into kitchen range; chamfered plinth. Ovolo moulded mullioned and transomed casement windows, two of three lights and one with two lights and similar lights above doorway to right hand with C19 panelled door; C19 stone mullioned bay window to left hand. Five first floor three-light and one two-light ovolo moulded mullioned and transomed casement windows. Five segmental headed dormer windows. North facade: Blocked openings of original windows and former doorways, reused C15 window tracery; C19 porch with parapet gable supported on shaped corbels surmounted by Gothic finials; chamfered jambs and head to doorway with panelled door. Interior: Early C17 staircase, rebuilt, with closed string and turned balusters; four stone chimney pieces with mannerist detail and moulded stone cornices to central ground and first floor rooms, two with over mantels with sunk panelled pilasters. Sealed kitchen hearth originally with baking oven; inserted partitions with C18 panelled doors and C17 boarded attic doors; staggered butt purlin roof.

V.C.H. Huntingdonshire, p217 R.C.H.M. Huntingdonshire, p235 Pevsner: Buildings of England, p348 Huntingdon Archd. Records. Terrier and Map. 1707

Listing NGR: TL0904198632