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WISBECH
TF 4509
5/141

NORTH BRINK
No. 5
(Formerly listed as Whyte Harte Hotel)

GV
II

Hotel, formerly The Phoenix Hotel and before that The
Whyte Harte Hotel, originally a coaching inn. C17 buildings faced with
brick in 1756. Stuccoed in C19 and main entrance built into
original cartway. Local brown brick; slate roof with parapet
gables and end stacks. Three storeys with basement and attics;
five 'bays'. Stuccoed facade rusticated at ground floor and
quoins. Parapet with stone copings, five flat roofed dormer
windows. Five second floor and first floor recessed, twelve-
paned hung sash windows with moulded cases, flat arches and
cills. Four similar ground floor windows with rusticated
jambs. Wide central entrance with double, panelled doors and
rectangular fanlight. H. Belloc stayed here and wrote of
Wisbech harbour.
VCH Cambs, p.242.
Pevsner, Buildings in England, p.500.
A.A. Oldham, Inns and Taverns of Wisbech, 1950.
Photographs and prints, C18 and C19, W. & F. Mus.

Listing NGR: TF4594909679

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26616516

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House