Description

WISBECH BRIDGE STREET
TF 4609
(South Side)
6/6 (Nos. 1-3 (consec)
(Post Office)
GV II

Post Office built in 1887 in 'French, Mediaeval Domestic
Style'. Red brick with limestone dressings; slate roof. Main
entrance facade to east with wing to west of four 'bays'. Two
storeys and attic. Parapet gables with end stacks, each with
linked circular limestone shafts. Three tall facade gabled
attic windows with flanking slender buttresses and finials.
Stone coped parapet and cornice, cill band at first floor and
stone plinth. Four, first floor, and three gound floor windows
(central pairs linked), with flat arched, roll-moulded stone
architraves rounded at corners. Entrance to left hand, half-
glazed door in stone, crocketed arched doorway linked at impost
to windows by stone band. Two storey wing has two large
'fanned' ground floor windows with stone key blocks and four
first floor hung sash windows with glazing bars, and parapet.
Gardiner, History of Wisbech, p.192, 1898.
Peckover, P.H. photographic collection, p.l28, W. & F. Mus,
1931.

Listing NGR: TF4606509604

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26510003

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Recommended Books

• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version