12, North Brink

WISBECH NORTH BRINK TF 4509 5/148 No. 12 GV II*

Early C18 house with early C19 alterations to original symmetrical facade and additions to rear, linked internally to warehouses to east. Local brown brick, reddened, with red brick dressings. Collyweston slate roof half-hipped to east. Stacks to west. Three storeys with service basement and vaults under street. Five 'bays', originally with central entrance moved to west in C19. Panelled parapet with stone copings. Five, second floor, twelve-paned recessed hung sash windows with cambered gauged brick arches and aprons, stone cills and painted reveals. Five first floor full length casement windows and stone balcony with patterned cast iron railings post 1820. Four ground floor windows similar, but larger than second floor. C19 entrance, approached by four stone steps with low wall, with plain lime- stone Doric doorcase and eight-panelled door and rectangular fanlight. Railings and gate to basement forecourt. Interior has one good complete C18 panelled room with original doors, C18 panelled shutters and doors to basement and upper floors, other interior details C19 including staircase. VCH Cambs, p.242. Pevsner, Buildings in England, p.500. Print of North Brink in Peckover House, c.1785. Photographs and prints, C18 and C19, W. & F. Mus.

Listing NGR: TF4588609670