5 North Brink

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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