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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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26568355

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