Dicken's Tavern is a Grade II* listed building in the Fenland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 February 1969. A C18 House. 1 related planning application.

Dicken's Tavern

WRENN ID
quiet-chancel-alder
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Fenland
Constituency
North East Cambridgeshire MP: Steve Barclay (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 February 1969
Type
House
Address
Dicken's Tavern, 17, Hill Street, Wisbech, PE13 1BA
OS grid reference
TF 461 097
Coordinates
52.66611, 0.16044
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Dicken's Tavern is a mid-18th century house located on Wisbech Hill Street. It is constructed of local brown brick and features a slate roof with end stacks. The building has a parapet with stone coping, a painted stone band at the second floor, and rusticated quoins. All windows are adorned with gauged red brick arches and stone cills, and there is a brick plinth at the base. The structure stands three storeys tall and includes five nine-paned recessed hung sash windows, five twelve-paned hung sash windows on the first floor, and four twelve-paned hung sash windows on the ground floor. The central entrance is framed by a painted, moulded stone doorcase that includes a pulvinated frieze and cornice, leading to a six-panelled door. Inside, the tavern features a well-preserved early 19th century staircase and a ceiling in the right-hand room that showcases plastered cross-beams enriched with flower bosses, also from the 19th century.

Local climate

Dicken's Tavern 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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