Queen'S Hotel

WISBECH TF 4509 5/246

SOUTH BRINK No. 12 (Queen' s Hotel)

GV II*

Early to mid C18 house, now a hotel. Local brown brick; slate roofs with internal facing hips. Gable parapets with end stacks. Three storeys with basement. Parapet with stone coping, cornice, first floor band and plinth. Red brick quoins and window jambs. Six, first floor recessed, six-paned hung sash windows in cambered, gauged brick arches with painted reveals. Six, similar, twelve-paned, first floor and five ground floor windows. Entrance to right; of centre, stone doorcase with Ionic columns, pulvinate frieze. Moulded, round- headed stone architrave with eight-fielded-panelled door and fanlight with interlocking glazing bars. Interior originally very fine but recently altered. Staircase similar in detail to No. 14 North Brink with turned balusters and Vitruvian scroll string, shaped and moulded handrail. Staircase hall with C18 geometric limestone floor with black marble insets; enriched cornice to coffered ceiling. One doorcase remains of original three at landing. Drawing room with roccoco-plastered decoration to coffered ceiling with deep enriched cornice. Three early C19 full height casement windows shaped to round- headed architraves with panelled reveals in south wall. Some original panelled doors and two chimney pieces. Pevsner, Buildings in England, p.501. Country Life 'Old Towns Revisted', p.182, 1952. Wisbech Society Annual General Report, 1951.

Listing NGR: TF4588009585