12, NORTH BRINK

12, NORTH BRINK

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1126637
Date first listed:
17-Jul-1951
List Entry Name:
12, NORTH BRINK
Statutory Address:
12, NORTH BRINK
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1126637
Date first listed:
17-Jul-1951
Date of most recent amendment:
31-Oct-1983
List Entry Name:
12, NORTH BRINK
Statutory Address 1:
12, 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
12, 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 45886 09670

Details

WISBECH NORTH BRINK TF 4509 5/148 No. 12 GV II*

Early C18 house with early C19 alterations to original symmetrical facade and additions to rear, linked internally to warehouses to east. Local brown brick, reddened, with red brick dressings. Collyweston slate roof half-hipped to east. Stacks to west. Three storeys with service basement and vaults under street. Five 'bays', originally with central entrance moved to west in C19. Panelled parapet with stone copings. Five, second floor, twelve-paned recessed hung sash windows with cambered gauged brick arches and aprons, stone cills and painted reveals. Five first floor full length casement windows and stone balcony with patterned cast iron railings post 1820. Four ground floor windows similar, but larger than second floor. C19 entrance, approached by four stone steps with low wall, with plain lime- stone Doric doorcase and eight-panelled door and rectangular fanlight. Railings and gate to basement forecourt. Interior has one good complete C18 panelled room with original doors, C18 panelled shutters and doors to basement and upper floors, other interior details C19 including staircase. VCH Cambs, p.242. Pevsner, Buildings in England, p.500. Print of North Brink in Peckover House, c.1785. Photographs and prints, C18 and C19, W. & F. Mus.

Listing NGR: TF4588609670

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
48346
Legacy System:
LBS

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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