Sessions House
SESSIONS HOUSE, SOUTH BRINK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1278859
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Sessions House
- Statutory Address:
- SESSIONS HOUSE, SOUTH BRINK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1278859
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Sessions House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SESSIONS HOUSE, 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:
- SESSIONS HOUSE, 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:
- TF 45927 09606
Details
WISBECH SOUTH BRINK TF 4509 5/242 Sessions House GV II
Formerly the Sessions House of the Isle of Ely built in 1808 and designed by Thomas West, local architect. Local gault brick with stone dressings; hipped slate roof and louvre. One storey and half basement, main entrance facing east, approached by stone stairs with iron railings. Parapet with stone copings, rusticated quoins, cornice band and plinth. Five, recessed, twelve-paned hung sash windows in cambered gauged brick arches. Main entrance now with modern door and fanlight in original cambered, gauged brick arch, two flanking windows similar to main facade. Original coved ceiling now boarded over. Wisbech Society Annual Report, 1957-8, p.10. Pevsner, Buildings in England, p.501. Watson, History of Wisbech, print, 1827. Walker and Craddock, History of Wisbech, p.426, 1849.
Listing NGR: TF4592709606
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48451
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Walker, N, Craddock, T, The History of Wisbech and the Fens, (1849), 426
Watson, W, An Historical Account of the Ancient Town and Port of Wisbech, (1827)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 501
Wisbech Society Annual Report in Wisbech Society Annual Report, (1957), 10
Wisbech Society Annual Report in Wisbech Society Annual Report, (1958), 10
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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