Stukeley House

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

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1671 BARN HILL (East Side) No 9 (Stukeley House) TF 0207 1/31 22.5.54.

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Mid C18 house of 2 storeys and attics in ashlar. Mansard roof of stone slates with 3 cambered dormers. Plinth. 3 windows with ui+usual treatment. The outer ones have a central hung sash with single side lights under a cambered head. fliw jambs consist of small pilasters. Centre window of a single liglt, cambered head. Those on the ground floor have narrow rusticated frames, and arch to centre one. Projecting porch with 2 columns in Greek Doric of early C19 date. Door of 6 panels, 2 glass, with reeded ingoes and a small segmental glazed fanlight.

3 steps. Inset foot scraper. This house is said to be the site of the residence of William Stukeley, the antiquary, while he was Vicar of All Saints, Stamford, in the early Cl8. It stands on the site of an earlier house from which Charles I escaped in disguise prior to his capture in 1646. House designed by George Portwood, Stamford's leading architect, in 1741. (pevsner).

Garage premises to No 9A,9A,9,10, Sunday School and Nos 12 to 17 (consec) together with Nos 1 to 8 (consec), All Saints' Place form a group.

Listing NGR: TF0277307259

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/0524 IOE Records taken by C Culligan; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© C Culligan. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project