Dicken's Tavern
DICKEN'S TAVERN, 17, HILL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1228928
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Dicken's Tavern
- Statutory Address:
- DICKEN'S TAVERN, 17, HILL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1228928
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Dicken's Tavern
- Statutory Address 1:
- DICKEN'S TAVERN, 17, HILL 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:
- DICKEN'S TAVERN, 17, HILL 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 46195 09787
Details
The following previous listing date shall be added.
Page 25 Item number 6/54 10.2.69
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WISBECH HILL STREET TF 4609 (North Side) 6/54 No. 17 (Dicken's Tavern) GV II*
Mid C18 house. Local brown brick; slate roof with end stacks. Parapet with stone coping, painted stone band at second floor and rusticated quoins. Gauged red brick arches to all windows with stone cills. Brick plinth. Three storeys. Five, nine- paned, recessed hung sash windows, and five, first floor, and four, ground floor, twelve-paned hung sash windows. Central entrance with painted, moulded stone doorcase with pulvinated frieze and cornice. Six-panelled door. Interior has good early C19 staircase and ceiling to right hand room of plastered cross- beams enriched by flower bosses, also C19. Pevsner, Buildings of England, p.498. VCH Cambs, p.243.
Listing NGR: TF4619509787
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48251
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1953), 243
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 498
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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