Peckover House & Garden
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Peckover House & Garden is a National Trust property located in North Brink, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England.
Peckover House was built in 1722 and bought by Jonathan Peckover at the end of the 18th century. The Peckovers, a Quaker banking family and owners of the Peckover Bank, presented the building to the National Trust in 1948.
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 thatched barn.
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- Peckover House was also the inspiration for John Gordon's 1970 novel, The House on the Brink.
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