CASTLE SQUARE, 1, YORK ROW

1, YORK ROW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1228621
Date first listed:: 17-Jul-1951
List Entry Name:: CASTLE SQUARE, 1, YORK ROW
Statutory Address:: 1, YORK ROW

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Date:: 2005-07-22
Reference:: IOE01/14167/22
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Official list entry

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:: CASTLE SQUARE, 1, YORK ROW
Statutory Address 1:: 1, YORK ROW
Statutory Address 2:: CASTLE SQUARE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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Legacy System number:: 48206
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.