Description

WISBECH CORN HILL
TF 4509
6/37 5/37 No. 1 (National
Westminster Bank)
GV II
Bank, built in 1853. Architect, John Gibson (b.1817, d.1892).
Formerly the National Provincial Bank. Yellow gault brick with
stone dressings and rusticated first floor. Slate roof. Three
storeys with attics; three symmetrical bays. Parapet to roof
balcony with stone copings, quoins surmounted by ball finials.
Deep stone modillioned cornice, cill band at second floor and
plain stone plinth. Three second floor, six-paned hung sash
windows; three first floor windows, twelve-paned hung sashes in
eared architraves with pulvinated friezes and deep cornices.
Pierced stone balcony across three bays. Two ground floor hung
sash windows with rusticated architraves flank central Roman
Doric doorcase with double doors and round-headed fanlight with
glazing bars.
Dixon, Mulhesius, Victorian Architecture, Thames and Hudson,
p.258, 1978.
Pevsner, Buildings in Englands, p.500.
S. Smith (b.1802, d.1892), photographic collection, W. & F. Mus.

Listing NGR: TF4600509692

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26522512

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