Description

WISBECH SOUTH BRINK
TF 4509
5/248 No, 15

Formerly listed as Queen's School

GV II*

Fine house built in mid C18 with early C19 rebuilt facade to
street. Local brown brick with gauged red brick dressings to
original building and C19 yellow gault brick with stone
dressings. Hipped slate roofs with end stacks and wooden,
octagonal domed cupola with iron railings. Three storeys and
basement with square plan and wing to east. Five bays to street
facade. Coped parapet and pediment; stone bands between
floors. Five, second floor recessed two-paned hung sash windows
in cambered gauged brick arches. Five similar, but larger first
floor, and four ground floor windows. Doric, pedimented stone
doorcase with eight-panelled door and rectangular fanlight.
Garden facade has recessed giant pilasters at quoins of gauged
red brick arches with stone bands. Stone bands between floors,
plinth and window arches. Twelve-pane hung sash windows and
late C18 wooden doorcase with panelled door. Interior includes
fine late C18 Adam style room with plastered ceiling, cornice,
and chimney piece with three painted miniature insets. Dentil
enriched cornices at most floors and original doors.
Open-string staircase late C18 of six flights with raking
mahogany handrail. Iron railings to street, shaped in plan,
with two double gates. School buildings to right hand, red
brick with red tiled roof. Built c.1897 by W.M. Fawcett. Five
'bayed' single storeyed main range divided by brick pilasters
with stone transomed and mullioned three-light windows, two
storey cross-wing with stepped gable. One stack. Tall louvred,
polygonal lantern with lead cap and iron finial. Extension to
west early C20.
Pevsner, Buildings in England, p.502.

Listing NGR: TF4585309558

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17543770

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock