12, North Street

WISBECH NORTH STREET TF 4609 (North Side) 6/210 No. 12 19.11.76 GV II*

Late C18 house. Local brown brick, slate roof with end stacks. Stone floor bands, parapet coping and window cills. Three storeys and basement with side passage to east. Rear wing with tumbled parapet gable and end stack with stair turret in angle. Four 'bay' street facade. Four second floor hung sash windows slightly recessed without glazing bars in cambered gauged brick arches. Four, larger first floor windows, and three ground floor windows all similar. Broken pedimented wooden doorcase with round-headed arch anbd panelled reveals. Blind, patterned fanlight and six-panelled door. Side passage with small patterned fanlight. Interior details original. Entrance hall has half-panelling and dado, panelled doors and cupboards, geometric open-string staircase approached by wide eliptical arch. Panelled window and doorcases, panelled doors, and chimneypiece. Geometric patterned, painted hall floor a rare survival+. NMR (C. Gregory, Wisbech photographic collection) 1982. J. Ayres, The English Home, Shell, 1981, p.44, reference. +Communication with Mr. I. Bristow. Photographs and prints, C18 and C19, W. & F. Mus. Craddock and Walker, History of Wisbech, 1847.

Listing NGR: TF4604109840