8 AND 9, OLD MARKET
8 AND 9, OLD MARKET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1126590
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- 8 AND 9, OLD MARKET
- Statutory Address:
- 8 AND 9, OLD MARKET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1126590
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- 8 AND 9, OLD MARKET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8 AND 9, OLD MARKET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 8 AND 9, OLD MARKET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Fenland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wisbech
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 46040 09761
Details
The following previous listing date shall be added.
Page 96 Item number 6/223 10.2.69
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WISBECH OLD MARKET TF 4609 (East Side) 6/223 Nos. 8 and 9 GV II*
Two houses, second half of C18 sharing fine street facade. Early C19 alterations. Local brown brick, slate roofs with end stacks. Four storeys with hipped three storey rear wing and two gabled extensions. Local brown brick with stone and red brick dressings. Six 'bays', two central 'bays' slightly project. Parapet with four inset brick panels and stone copings. Central pediment and cornice of moulded stone with modillions. Stone bands at second and third floors. Six, third floor, recessed six-paned hung sash windows in gauged red brick arches with keystones and stone cills. Inset brick panels below windows. Second floor windows similar with twelve-panes. Stone balcony with cast iron railings supported on cast-iron brackets at first floor with full length casement windows with margin lights. Two matching entrances to left of centre and to right hand; wide half-glazed, panelled doors in plain architraved doorcases with rectangular fanlights. Moulded stone plinth. Interior has plain C19 closed string staircase. NMR (C. Gregory, Wisbech photographic collection), 1982. Pevsner, Buildings in England, p.499. VCH Cambs, p.243. Photoqraphs and prints, C18 and C19, W. & F. Mus.
Listing NGR: TF4629109520
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48430
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1953), 243
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 499
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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