Old School

WISBECH HILL STREET TF 4609 (North Side) 6/52 No. 1 (Old School) GV II

Originally a girls school, occupying a corner position with School Lane. Second storey added c.1850 and pediment raised with inscription 'THIS BUILDING WAS BUILT BY THE BURGESSES OF WISBECH A.D. 1814 SUPPORTED BY THE BEQUEST OF MRS. WRIGHT AND THE BENEFACTIONS OF ABRAHAM JOBSON D.D., JOHN EDES, ESQ., AND OTHERS, AIDED BY VOLUNTRAY SUBSCRIPTIONS'. Seven 'bays' to Hill Street with central three 'bays' slightly projecting. Local brown brick, rendered plinth, stone impost band and first floor band, moulded stone cornice and pediment with cross-keys in relief in tympanum. Brick parapet with stone coping. First floor hung sash windows with glazing bars in double recessed segmental-headed arches. Ground floor windows with radial glazing bars, shaped to round-headed double recessed arches. Two original entrances in School Lane in round-headed arches with fanlights and six-panelled door (one doorway now blocked). Walker and Craddock, p.413, History of Wisbech, 1849. Gardiner, p.234, History of Wisbech, 1898. Pevsner, Buildings in England, p.498. A.P. Peckover, Watercolour of School, 1850. T.S. Watson, History of Wisbech, p.189, 1849

Listing NGR: TF4615209798