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
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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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