The Rose and Crown Inn is a Grade II* listed building in the Fenland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1983. A Renaissance Inn. 1 related planning application.
The Rose and Crown Inn
- WRENN ID
- fading-transept-evening
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Fenland
- Constituency
- North East Cambridgeshire MP: Steve Barclay (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1983
- Type
- Inn
- Period
- Renaissance
- Address
- The Rose and Crown Inn, 23 and 24, Market Place, Wisbech, PE13 1DG
- OS grid reference
- TF 461 097
- Coordinates
- 52.66539, 0.15962
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 17th-century coaching inn, significantly altered in approximately the mid-19th century. It is located on the west side of Wisbech Market Place. The rear of the building retains timber framing, while the front is rendered and brick, with painted stucco. The street elevation is of local amber brick with a red plain tile roof and a stack on the right-hand side. The inn is three storeys high, with a basement and attics, and has seven bays, including a carriageway on the left. There are six gabled dormer windows. A dentil cornice leads to a central, pedimented parapet, and a stone cornice band runs along the front. Seven recessed, plain hung sash windows with plastered reveals and stone sills are at the second floor, with larger, similar windows on the first floor. Rusticated, painted quoins feature at ground floor level, and a band with fanned keystones sits above the carriageway. A fluted, wooden doorcase frames double, panelled doors. A plastered plinth is also present.
At the rear of the courtyard, an early 17th-century building spans the rear carriageway. It includes a second-floor, pedimented, three-light casement window with "1601" in relief, along with applied metal designs depicting a trumpet and pheasant. A pedimented, cross-framed window also features. Two early 19th-century hung sash windows with trefoiled heads to the glazing bars flank the street carriageway, with a similar window in the rear range west of the courtyard.
Inside, a fine late 17th-century staircase, though not in its original position, has a moulded handrail, square newels, and splat balusters turned at the first flight, alongside two original gallery room doors. A ground floor room to the right contains complete bolection moulded panelling and a fine mid-18th-century marble chimneypiece. Other rooms feature panelling, including a long room facing the Market Place with mid-19th-century interior details. Second-floor rooms with chamfered beams suggest an original, multi-gabled 17th-century facade. A rear wing, known as Trumpet Hall, was constructed around 1930 and features a classical interior with a segmental arched ceiling.
Extensive vaults are located beneath the building, including brick tunnel vaults; these may incorporate earlier materials and original walls, with features such as a small lamp niche and blind arches.
Local climate
The Rose and Crown Inn 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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