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Latitude: 52.6644 / 52°39'51"N
Longitude: 0.1557 / 0°9'20"E
OS Eastings: 545880
OS Northings: 309585
OS Grid: TF458095
Mapcode National: GBR L1Q.XX2
Mapcode Global: WHJPH.C9C8
Plus Code: 9F42M574+P7
Entry Name: Queen's Hotel
Listing Date: 31 October 1983
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1278862
English Heritage Legacy ID: 48455
ID on this website: 101278862
Location: Wisbech, Fenland, Cambridgeshire, PE13
County: Cambridgeshire
District: Fenland
Civil Parish: Wisbech
Built-Up Area: Wisbech
Traditional County: Cambridgeshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cambridgeshire
Church of England Parish: Wisbech St Peter and St Paul
Church of England Diocese: Ely
Tagged with: Hotel
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
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