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5 North Brink

A Grade II Listed Building in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire

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Latitude: 52.6652 / 52°39'54"N

Longitude: 0.1568 / 0°9'24"E

OS Eastings: 545949

OS Northings: 309679

OS Grid: TF459096

Mapcode National: GBR L1Q.Y5V

Mapcode Global: WHJPH.C8WN

Plus Code: 9F42M584+3P

Entry Name: 5 North Brink

Listing Date: 10 February 1969

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1331629

English Heritage Legacy ID: 48339

ID on this website: 101331629

Location: Wisbech, Fenland, Cambridgeshire, PE13

County: Cambridgeshire

District: Fenland

Civil Parish: Wisbech

Built-Up Area: Wisbech

Traditional County: Cambridgeshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cambridgeshire

Church of England Parish: Wisbech St Peter and St Paul

Church of England Diocese: Ely

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This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 08/12/2014.

The following previous listing date shall be added.

Page 61 Item number 5/141 10.2.69

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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

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