23 And 24, North Brink

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WISBECH TF 4509 5/165

NORTH BRINK Nos. 23 and 24

GV II

Pair of Jacobean-Gothic revival houses built by Algenon Peckover (1803-1893) between 1854 and 1860. Yellow gault brick with limestone dressings; tiled roof with fleur de lys ridge tiles. Two storeys with attics and basements. Central ridge stack and two side stacks to slightly projecting wings with four equal, cross-stepped gables and tall stone finials. Moulded decoration on tall chimney pots to all stacks. Three first floor twelve-paned hung sash windows in flat stone arches with drip moulds. Six similar second floor windows. Stone bands between floors and capping to plinth. Ground floor window to No. 24 has original three-light hung sash window, No. 23 replaced by canted bay window. Two Gothic oak doors approached by stone steps with low flanking walls. Interiors have original open string staircase with fluted newel posts and six-panelled doors. VCH Cambs, p.242. Pevsner, Buildings in England, p.501. Photographs and prints, C18 and C19, W. & F. Mus.

Listing NGR: TF4580109612