1, YORK ROW, CASTLE SQUARE
1, YORK ROW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1228621
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- 1, YORK ROW, CASTLE SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 1, YORK ROW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1228621
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jul-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 1, YORK ROW, CASTLE SQUARE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, YORK ROW
- Statutory Address 2:
- CASTLE SQUARE
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:
- 1, YORK ROW
- Statutory Address:
- CASTLE SQUARE
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 46142 09578
Details
The entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21 September 2017.
WISBECH CASTLE SQUARE
TF 4609
(South Side)
6/10 No. 1 (York Row)
GV II
Corner house built c.1797. One of a terrace of houses
continuing from the Crescent along York Row, part of the planned
circus of the Castle Estate, designed and built by Joseph
Medworth (b.1752, d.1827) from 1793 to 1816. Local brown brick;
slate roof, side stack. Three storeys and basement, three
'bays' on both street facades. Stone coped parapet with painted
stone bands at first and second floor. Plastered plinth.
Crescent facade has two, recessed nine-pane hung sash windows in
cambered gauged red brick arches and stone cills, and one,
painted blind window. Two, second floor twelve-pane windows in
similar openings and one blind window. Three ground floor hung
sash windows without glazing bars. York Row facade has similar
window pattern without blind windows. Windows at first floor
have half glazing bars removed. Main entrance to left hand in
recessed round headed red gauged brick arch with two stone
steps. C19 four-panelled door and plain fanlight. Interior has
original closed string staircase, panelled doors and archways
and window-cases. One adam style and two c.1900 chimney pieces.
NMR (C. Gregory, Wisbech photographic collection), 1982.
Pevsner, Buildings in England, p.502.
Colvin, p.386, 1950.
VCH Cambs, p.242.
Annis G., A History of Wisbech Castle, 1977.
Gardiner, History of Wisbech, p.43, 1898.
Watson, History of Wisbech,prints, 1827.
Walker and Craddock, History of Wisbech, p.278, 1849.
Listing NGR: TF4613509580
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48206
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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