Description

WISBECH HILL STREET
TF 4609
(North Side)
6/52 No. 1
(Old School)
GV II

Originally a girls school, occupying a corner position with
School Lane. Second storey added c.1850 and pediment raised
with inscription 'THIS BUILDING WAS BUILT BY THE BURGESSES OF
WISBECH A.D. 1814 SUPPORTED BY THE BEQUEST OF MRS. WRIGHT AND
THE BENEFACTIONS OF ABRAHAM JOBSON D.D., JOHN EDES, ESQ., AND
OTHERS, AIDED BY VOLUNTRAY SUBSCRIPTIONS'. Seven 'bays' to Hill
Street with central three 'bays' slightly projecting. Local
brown brick, rendered plinth, stone impost band and first floor
band, moulded stone cornice and pediment with cross-keys in
relief in tympanum. Brick parapet with stone coping. First
floor hung sash windows with glazing bars in double recessed
segmental-headed arches. Ground floor windows with radial
glazing bars, shaped to round-headed double recessed arches.
Two original entrances in School Lane in round-headed arches
with fanlights and six-panelled door (one doorway now blocked).
Walker and Craddock, p.413, History of Wisbech, 1849.
Gardiner, p.234, History of Wisbech, 1898.
Pevsner, Buildings in England, p.498.
A.P. Peckover, Watercolour of School, 1850.
T.S. Watson, History of Wisbech, p.189, 1849

Listing NGR: TF4615209798

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26616502

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