Harecroft School
HARECROFT SCHOOL, 46, 47 AND 48, NORTH BRINK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126612
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Harecroft School
- Statutory Address:
- HARECROFT SCHOOL, 46, 47 AND 48, NORTH BRINK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126612
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Harecroft School
- Statutory Address 1:
- HARECROFT SCHOOL, 46, 47 AND 48, NORTH BRINK
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:
- HARECROFT SCHOOL, 46, 47 AND 48, NORTH BRINK
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 45627 09514
Details
The following previous listing date shall be added.
Page 79 Item number 5/182 10.2.69
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WISBECH NORTH BRINK TF 4509 5/182 Nos. 46, 47 and 48 (Harecourt School) GV II
Ilianate villa now a school said to have been designed by Algenon Peckover, 1840-50. Yellow gault brick with stone details; hipped slate roofs with symmetrical stacks. Three storeys and half basement with two storey wing to south-west. School room additions to north east c.1904 replace matching original wing. First floor stone cill band. Deep boarded eaves with scroll enrichment to plastered frieze band, repeated on wing. Five second floor recessed hung sash windows in cambered gauged brick arches, five larger twelve-paned windows at first floor, and four similar ground floor windows. Entrance approached by seven stone steps and curving ornamental railing to basement forecourt. Limestone doorcase with moulded impost, round-headed arch and key block. Eight panelled door with round-headed fanlight. Contemporary wing with pedimented gable has side entrance in corner porch. Six-panelled door in round- headed arch with fanlight. Two hung sash windows in recessed two storey arch, first floor window shaped to round-headed arch. Blind arch to south-west balancing porch. VCH Cambs, p.242. Wisbech Society Annual Report, 1948, 1970. Photographs and prints, C18 and C19, W. & F. Mus. Walker and Craddock, History of Wisbech, p.486, 1847.
Listing NGR: TF4561209551
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48387
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Walker, N, Craddock, T, The History of Wisbech and the Fens, (1849), 486
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1953), 242
Wisbech Society Annual Report in Wisbech Society Annual Report, (1948)
Wisbech Society Annual Report in Wisbech Society Annual Report, (1970)
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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