Queen's Hotel
QUEEN'S HOTEL, 12, SOUTH BRINK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1278862
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Queen's Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- QUEEN'S HOTEL, 12, SOUTH BRINK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1278862
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Queen's Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- QUEEN'S HOTEL, 12, 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:
- QUEEN'S HOTEL, 12, 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:
- TF4588009585
Details
WISBECH
TF 4509
5/246
SOUTH BRINK
No. 12
(Queen' s Hotel)
GV
II*
Early to mid C18 house, now a hotel. Local brown brick; slate
roofs with internal facing hips. Gable parapets with end
stacks. Three storeys with basement. Parapet with stone
coping, cornice, first floor band and plinth. Red brick quoins
and window jambs. Six, first floor recessed, six-paned hung
sash windows in cambered, gauged brick arches with painted
reveals. Six, similar, twelve-paned, first floor and five
ground floor windows. Entrance to right; of centre, stone
doorcase with Ionic columns, pulvinate frieze. Moulded, round-
headed stone architrave with eight-fielded-panelled door and
fanlight with interlocking glazing bars. Interior originally
very fine but recently altered. Staircase similar in detail to
No. 14 North Brink with turned balusters and Vitruvian scroll
string, shaped and moulded handrail. Staircase hall with C18
geometric limestone floor with black marble insets; enriched
cornice to coffered ceiling. One doorcase remains of original
three at landing. Drawing room with roccoco-plastered
decoration to coffered ceiling with deep enriched cornice.
Three early C19 full height casement windows shaped to round-
headed architraves with panelled reveals in south wall. Some
original panelled doors and two chimney pieces.
Pevsner, Buildings in England, p.501.
Country Life 'Old Towns Revisted', p.182, 1952.
Wisbech Society Annual General Report, 1951.
Listing NGR: TF4588009585
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48455
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 501
Wisbech Society Annual Report in Wisbech Society Annual Report, (1951)
Country Life in Country Life, (1952), 182
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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