Wisbech Standard

WISBECH STANDARD, 27, HILL STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1228943
Date first listed:
10-Feb-1969
List Entry Name:
Wisbech Standard
Statutory Address:
WISBECH STANDARD, 27, HILL STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1228943
Date first listed:
10-Feb-1969
List Entry Name:
Wisbech Standard
Statutory Address 1:
WISBECH STANDARD, 27, 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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:
WISBECH STANDARD, 27, 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 46209 09758

Details

The following previous listing date shall be added.

Page 26 Item number 6/56 10.2.69

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WISBECH HILL STREET TF 4609 (North Side) 6/56 No. 27 (Wisbech Standard) GV II

Late C18 house. Local amber brick. Three storeys with basement; double pile plan with side stacks. Stone coping to parapet, bands at first and second floors, and plinth band. All windows without glazing bars. Four, second floor, and four, larger first floor hung sash windows in cambered, gauged brick arches. Three large round-headed ground floor windows with gauged brick arches and stone cills. Architraved stone doorcase to left hand entrance approached by stone steps; panelled door in recessed round-headed arch with patterned fanlight. Interior details original. Good pedimented doorcases, chimney piece and staircase with top light. Pevsner, Buildings of England, p.498. VCH Cambs, p.243.

Listing NGR: TF4620909758

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Legacy System number:
48253
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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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