19, North Brink

19 North Brink is a Grade II* listed building in Wisbech that includes the original stables of Peckover House, now converted into a single dwelling. The building has three distinct construction periods: the stables, dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century, are located to the west of the tower block, which dates from the early 18th century, and the rear wing, possibly built around 1700.

The tower block is constructed from local brown brick with red brick detailing and features a shallow pyramidal slate roof topped with a weather-vane finial. It has a moulded wooden cornice with modillions and stands three storeys tall. The corners are accentuated by giant pilasters, and there is a brick plinth. The river-facing facade showcases two-storey canted bay windows with hung sashes and glazing bars, along with a three-light hung sash window at the second floor, which has a cambered, gauged brick arch. Recently inserted windows can be found on the east facade.

The stables to the west are made of gault brick with gauged amber brick and Coade stone details, also standing two storeys tall with five bays. They feature a blind arcade with Coade stone fluted imposts and head masks above round-headed arches, as well as trefoil Coade stone windows in the spandrels and a fluted band at the first floor. Three first-floor six-paned hung sash windows are shaped to deep segmental arches, and there is a battlemented pediment with stone coping. Entrances are located to the west.

The rear wing, which may be part of an earlier house, is built from local red brick and has a slate roof with a parapet gable and an end stack. This section is two storeys with attics and includes two painted blind dormer windows with bolection-moulded gable cornices, a deep curved eaves cornice, one first-floor twelve-pane hung sash window, and two blind windows within gauged brick arches. A gauged brick band runs between the floors, and there are two blocked ground floor windows. An attached range to the north has been altered but retains original Collyweston stone slates.

In the 19th century, part of this building was used as a Quaker School. An early 19th-century watercolour of the property can be found in Peckover House, as well as photographs and prints from the 18th and 19th centuries by W. & F. Mus.