Description

WISBECH NORTH STREET
TF 4609
(North Side)
6/210 No. 12
19.11.76
GV II*

Late C18 house. Local brown brick, slate roof with end stacks.
Stone floor bands, parapet coping and window cills. Three
storeys and basement with side passage to east. Rear wing with
tumbled parapet gable and end stack with stair turret in angle.
Four 'bay' street facade. Four second floor hung sash windows
slightly recessed without glazing bars in cambered gauged brick
arches. Four, larger first floor windows, and three ground
floor windows all similar. Broken pedimented wooden doorcase
with round-headed arch anbd panelled reveals. Blind, patterned
fanlight and six-panelled door. Side passage with small
patterned fanlight. Interior details original. Entrance hall
has half-panelling and dado, panelled doors and cupboards,
geometric open-string staircase approached by wide eliptical
arch. Panelled window and doorcases, panelled doors, and
chimneypiece. Geometric patterned, painted hall floor a rare
survival+.
NMR (C. Gregory, Wisbech photographic collection) 1982.
J. Ayres, The English Home, Shell, 1981, p.44, reference.
+Communication with Mr. I. Bristow.
Photographs and prints, C18 and C19, W. & F. Mus.
Craddock and Walker, History of Wisbech, 1847.

Listing NGR: TF4604109840

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17543689

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Recommended Books

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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6