5 North Brink
5, NORTH BRINK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1331629
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- 5 North Brink
- Statutory Address:
- 5, NORTH BRINK
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1331629
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- 5 North Brink
- Statutory Address 1:
- 5, NORTH BRINK
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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:
- 5, 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:
- TF4594909679
Details
This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 08/12/2014.
The following previous listing date shall be added.
Page 61 Item number 5/141 10.2.69
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WISBECH
TF 4509
5/141
NORTH BRINK
No. 5
(Formerly listed as Whyte Harte Hotel)
GV
II
Hotel, formerly The Phoenix Hotel and before that The
Whyte Harte Hotel, originally a coaching inn. C17 buildings faced with
brick in 1756. Stuccoed in C19 and main entrance built into
original cartway. Local brown brick; slate roof with parapet
gables and end stacks. Three storeys with basement and attics;
five 'bays'. Stuccoed facade rusticated at ground floor and
quoins. Parapet with stone copings, five flat roofed dormer
windows. Five second floor and first floor recessed, twelve-
paned hung sash windows with moulded cases, flat arches and
cills. Four similar ground floor windows with rusticated
jambs. Wide central entrance with double, panelled doors and
rectangular fanlight. H. Belloc stayed here and wrote of
Wisbech harbour.
VCH Cambs, p.242.
Pevsner, Buildings in England, p.500.
A.A. Oldham, Inns and Taverns of Wisbech, 1950.
Photographs and prints, C18 and C19, W. & F. Mus.
Listing NGR: TF4594909679
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48339
- 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
Oldham, A A, Inns and Taverns of Wisbech, (1950)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 500
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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