Peckover House and Garden

Peckover House & Garden is a National Trust property located in North Brink, Wisbech, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.

Peckover House, Wisbech

History

The house was built in 1722 and bought by Jonathan Peckover at the end of the 18th century.[1] Alexander Peckover was created Baron Peckover in 1907. The Peckovers, a Quaker banking family and owners of the Peckover Bank, presented the building to the National Trust in 1948. During the period in which the building was in the ownership of the Peckovers, the building was known as Bank House.[2]

Architecture and grounds

The exterior of the house gives little idea of the elaborate and elegant interior of fine panelled rooms, Georgian fireplaces with carved over-mantels, and ornate plaster decorations

At the back of the house is a beautiful 0.8 ha (2 acre) Victorian walled garden with interesting and rare trees, delightful summer houses and fruiting orange trees, thought to be 300 years old, roses, herbaceous borders, fernery, croquet lawn and 17th-century reed thatched barn.

A mantrap once belonging to the Peckovers is now on display in Wisbech & Fenland Museum.

  • Peckover House was the inspiration for John Gordon's 1970 novel, The House on the Brink.
  • The film was the subject of an episode of a BBC documentary on National Trust gardens, in 1992, produced by Peter Seabrook.
  • The house has been used for a number of films, including Dean Spanley (2008).

References
  1. Monger, Garry (2019). "Bank House". The Fens: Wisbech & Surrounding. 1: 16.
  2. George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom: extant, extinct, or dormant, Volume 13, The St. Catherine Press, Ltd., 1940

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