Description

WISBECH

NORTH BRINK

TF 4509
5/160

No. 19

GV
II*

Building including the original stables to Peckover House and
now converted to one dwelling. Three building periods.
Stables, late C18 or early C19 to west of tower block, early
C18; and rear wing possibly c.1700. Tower block, local brown
brick with red brick details, shallow pyramidal slate roof with
weather-vane finial, moulded wooden cornice with modillions.
Three storeys. Giant pilasters at quoins and brick plinth.
River facade has two storey canted bay windows with hung sashes
and glazing bars, and three-light hung sash window with
cambered, gauged, brick arch at second floor. Windows in east
facade recently inserted. Stables to west, gault brick with
gauged amber brick, and Coade stone details. Two storeys. Five
'bays'. Blind arcade with Coade stone fluted imposts and head
masks to round-headed arches. Trefoil Coade stone windows in
spandrels and fluted band at first floor. Three first floor
six-paned hung sash windows shaped to deep segmental arches.
Battlemented pediment with stone coping. Entrances to west.
Rear wing possibly part of an earlier house. Local red brick,
slate roof with parapet gable and end stack. Two storeys with
attics. Two, painted blind dormer windows with bolection
moulded gable cornices. Deep, curved eaves cornice. One first
floor twelve-pane hung sash window and two blind windows in
gauged brick arches. Gauged brick band between floors. Two
blocked ground floor windows. Attached range to north, altered,
with original Collyweston stone slates. Part of the building
was used as a Quaker School in C19.
Early C19 watercolour in Peckover House.
Peckover House, National Trust Pub. p.4, 1978.
Photographs and prints, C18 and C19, W. & F. Mus.

Listing NGR: TF4583709632

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17543776

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Recommended Books

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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)