12, NORTH STREET
12, NORTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1126622
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1976
- List Entry Name:
- 12, NORTH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 12, NORTH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1126622
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1976
- List Entry Name:
- 12, NORTH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 12, NORTH STREET
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:
- 12, NORTH STREET
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 46041 09840
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48416
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Walker, N, Craddock, T, The History of Wisbech and the Fens, (1849)
Ayres, J, The Shell Book of the Home in Britain, (1981), 44
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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