5 North Brink is a Grade II listed building in the Fenland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 February 1969. Hotel.
5 North Brink
- WRENN ID
- twisted-steeple-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Fenland
- Constituency
- North East Cambridgeshire MP: Steve Barclay (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 February 1969
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- 5 North Brink, Wisbech
- OS grid reference
- TF 459 096
- Coordinates
- 52.6652, 0.15676
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
5 North Brink is a hotel that was formerly known as The Phoenix Hotel and before that as The Whyte Harte Hotel, originally established as a coaching inn. The building dates back to the 17th century, with brick facing added in 1756. It was stuccoed in the 19th century, and the main entrance is incorporated into the original cartway. The structure is made of local brown brick and features a slate roof with parapet gables and end stacks. It stands three storeys tall, with a basement and attics, and has five bays. The stuccoed facade is rusticated at the ground floor and includes quoins. The parapet is topped with stone copings and has five flat-roofed dormer windows. The first and second floors have five recessed, twelve-paned hung sash windows with moulded cases, flat arches, and cills. The ground floor features four similar windows with rusticated jambs. The wide central entrance has double panelled doors and a rectangular fanlight. Notably, H. Belloc stayed here and wrote about Wisbech harbour.
Local climate
5 North Brink sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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