38 and 39 Market Place
38 AND 39, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126659
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 38 and 39 Market Place
- Statutory Address:
- 38 AND 39, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126659
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 38 and 39 Market Place
- Statutory Address 1:
- 38 AND 39, MARKET PLACE
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:
- 38 AND 39, MARKET PLACE
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 46241 09695
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 08/12/2014.
WISBECH MARKET PLACE
TF 4609
(North Side)
6/104 Nos. 38 and 39
(Formerly listed as No Name for this Entry).
GV II
Early C18 shops, with possibly early C19 facade altered in early
C20. Steeply pitched slate roofs, double gable to street.
Large brick stack to left hand. Rendered brick. Two storeys
with attics, rear wing extends over the Mews with exposed
hollow-chamfered floor beams, resited, and with two brick
arches, one spanning the passage to Hill Street. Facade gables
have shaped bargeboards with wooden finials. Two, four-paned
hung sash attic windows in segmental arches. Two first floor
casement windows originally opening onto a balcony and three,
twelve-paned hung sash windows, two recessed and one flush
framed at first floor. Two modern shops at ground floor.
Included for group value.
VCH Cambs, p.242.
Pevsner, Buildings in England, p.498.
Listing NGR: TF4624109695
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48302
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1953), 242
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 498
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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