23 AND 24, NORTH BRINK

23 AND 24, NORTH BRINK

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1279105
Date first listed:
10-Feb-1969
List Entry Name:
23 AND 24, NORTH BRINK
Statutory Address:
23 AND 24, NORTH BRINK
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Date:
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Reference:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1279105
Date first listed:
10-Feb-1969
List Entry Name:
23 AND 24, NORTH BRINK
Statutory Address 1:
23 AND 24, NORTH 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.

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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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Location

Statutory Address:
23 AND 24, NORTH 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:
TF4580109612

Details

The following previous listing date shall be added.

Page 73 Item number 5/165 10.2.69


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WISBECH
TF 4509
5/165

NORTH BRINK
Nos. 23 and 24

GV
II

Pair of Jacobean-Gothic revival houses built by Algenon Peckover
(1803-1893) between 1854 and 1860. Yellow gault brick with
limestone dressings; tiled roof with fleur de lys ridge tiles.
Two storeys with attics and basements. Central ridge stack and
two side stacks to slightly projecting wings with four equal,
cross-stepped gables and tall stone finials. Moulded decoration
on tall chimney pots to all stacks. Three first floor
twelve-paned hung sash windows in flat stone arches with drip
moulds. Six similar second floor windows. Stone bands between
floors and capping to plinth. Ground floor window to No. 24 has
original three-light hung sash window, No. 23 replaced by canted
bay window. Two Gothic oak doors approached by stone steps with
low flanking walls. Interiors have original open string
staircase with fluted newel posts and six-panelled doors.
VCH Cambs, p.242.
Pevsner, Buildings in England, p.501.
Photographs and prints, C18 and C19, W. & F. Mus.

Listing NGR: TF4580109612

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
48364
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1953), 242
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 501

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of 23 AND 24, NORTH BRINK

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