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WISBECH UNION PLACE
TF 4609
6/258 No. 4
GV II Terrace house built c.1800, one of six houses built as part of
the planned circus of the Castle Estate by Joseph Medworth
(c.1754, d.1827). Local brown brick; modern interlocking tile
roof and pantile roof. Three storeys and basement, four 'bays'
including side passage to right hand with boarded door and
painted panel in lieu of fanlight in round-headed brick arch.
Main entrance has wooden doorcase with fluted pilasters and
broken pediment, plain round-headed fanlight and six-panelled
door. Shallow parapet with stone coping. Two, second floor,
nine-paned recessed hung sash windows in cambered, gauged red
brick arches and stone cills and two painted blind windows.
Three first floor and two ground floor twelve-paned hung sash
windows in similar openings with one painted blind window at
each storey above passage way. Painted stone cill band at first
floor. Interior has plain, original staircase, and two,
reed-panelled chimney pieces and panelled doors.
NMR (C. Godfrey, Wisbech photographic collection), 1982.
Pevsner, Buildings in England, p.502.
VCH Cambs, p.242.
Colvin, p.386, 1950.
Photographs and prints, C18 and C19, W. & F. Mus.
Three Histories of Wisbech, 1827, 1849 and 1897.
G. Annis, History of Wisbech Castle, 1977.
Listing NGR: TF4617409614
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Sources
Books and journals Annis, G, A History of Wisbech Castle, (1977) Colvin, H M , A Biographical Dictionary of English Architects 1600-1840, (1954), 386 Gardiner, F J, History of Wisbech and Neighbourhood, (1898) Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 502 Salzman, L F , The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1953), 242 Walker, N, Craddock, T , The History of Wisbech and the Fens, (1849) Watson, W, An Historical Account of the Ancient Town and Port of Wisbech, (1827)
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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