Description

The following previous listing date shall be added.

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WISBECH LYNN ROAD
TF 4609
(North Side)
6/71 No. 11
(Marmion House Hotel)
GV II

House, now a hotel, early C19 raised to three storeys and
extended to east, c.1860. Home of a stone mason Samuel Andrews
and his family from 1820. Local brown brick pebble dashed with
rusticated stone quoins and dressings. Hipped slate roof with
deep boarded eaves and side stacks. Three storeys and three
'bays', basement. Moulded stone architraves with key blocks and
lion masks in corner bosses to casement window with transomes at
each floor level. Central entrance approached by three moulded
stone steps. Pilastered doorcase with rosettes on frieze and
sculptured plaque. Interior has contemporary plastered ceilings
and other C19 details. Boundary wall has four stone statues
possibly C19 resited in niches.
Wisbech Trade Directories, C19.
Wisbech and Fenland Museum, Sam Smith, photographic collection,
1853.
Gunnis, British Sculptors, 1951.
F. Burgess, English Churchyard Memorials.

Listing NGR: TF4624209987

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26522767

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