15 South Brink
15, SOUTH BRINK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1229902
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 15 South Brink
- Statutory Address:
- 15, SOUTH BRINK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1229902
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 15 South Brink
- Statutory Address 1:
- 15, SOUTH 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:
- 15, SOUTH 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:
- TF4585309558
Details
WISBECH SOUTH BRINK
TF 4509
5/248 No, 15
Formerly listed as Queen's School
GV II*
Fine house built in mid C18 with early C19 rebuilt facade to
street. Local brown brick with gauged red brick dressings to
original building and C19 yellow gault brick with stone
dressings. Hipped slate roofs with end stacks and wooden,
octagonal domed cupola with iron railings. Three storeys and
basement with square plan and wing to east. Five bays to street
facade. Coped parapet and pediment; stone bands between
floors. Five, second floor recessed two-paned hung sash windows
in cambered gauged brick arches. Five similar, but larger first
floor, and four ground floor windows. Doric, pedimented stone
doorcase with eight-panelled door and rectangular fanlight.
Garden facade has recessed giant pilasters at quoins of gauged
red brick arches with stone bands. Stone bands between floors,
plinth and window arches. Twelve-pane hung sash windows and
late C18 wooden doorcase with panelled door. Interior includes
fine late C18 Adam style room with plastered ceiling, cornice,
and chimney piece with three painted miniature insets. Dentil
enriched cornices at most floors and original doors.
Open-string staircase late C18 of six flights with raking
mahogany handrail. Iron railings to street, shaped in plan,
with two double gates. School buildings to right hand, red
brick with red tiled roof. Built c.1897 by W.M. Fawcett. Five
'bayed' single storeyed main range divided by brick pilasters
with stone transomed and mullioned three-light windows, two
storey cross-wing with stepped gable. One stack. Tall louvred,
polygonal lantern with lead cap and iron finial. Extension to
west early C20.
Pevsner, Buildings in England, p.502.
Listing NGR: TF4585309558
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48457
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 502
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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