Rear Range Number 46
7 AND 8, BRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1125907
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Rear Range Number 46
- Statutory Address:
- 7 AND 8, BRIDGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1125907
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Rear Range Number 46
- Statutory Address 1:
- 7 AND 8, BRIDGE STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- REAR RANGE NUMBER 46, 46, ALEXANDRA ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 7 AND 8, BRIDGE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- REAR RANGE NUMBER 46, 46, ALEXANDRA ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Fenland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wisbech
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 46027 09609
Details
The following previous listing date shall be added.
Page 3 Item number 6/7 10.2.69
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WISBECH BRIDGE STREET TF 4609 (South Side) 6/7 Nos. 7 and 8 (including rear range No. 46 Alexandra Road) GV II
Two shops, originally timber-framed and jettied to the street, possibly late C16 or earlier, with late C17 brick gables, roof and rear wing. Walls rendered; steeply pitched slated, butt- purlin roof of four bays. Diagonal red brick shaft to left hand stack. Two storeys (attic floor removed). Three first floor casement windows. Late C19 shop windows flank central door to No. 7, and C20 windows to No. 8. Rear wing cased in brick and raised to three storeys in early C19, with architraved shop window. Interior to No. 8 has fine carved moulded ceiling beams and stop-moulded floor joists. Exposed roof trusses. VCH, p.242. Peckover, A. watercolour (Watsons), W. & F. Mus, c.1857.
Listing NGR: TF4602709609
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48203
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1953), 242
Watson, W, An Historical Account of the Ancient Town and Port of Wisbech, (1827)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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