CASTLE SQUARE, 7, 8 AND 9, YORK ROW
7, 8 AND 9, YORK ROW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1228644
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- CASTLE SQUARE, 7, 8 AND 9, YORK ROW
- Statutory Address:
- 7, 8 AND 9, YORK ROW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1228644
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jul-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- CASTLE SQUARE, 7, 8 AND 9, YORK ROW
- Statutory Address 1:
- 7, 8 AND 9, 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:
- 7, 8 AND 9, 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 46095 09596
Details
The entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21 September 2017.
WISBECH CASTLE SQUARE
TF 4609
(South Side)
6/16 Nos. 7, 8 and 9
(York Row)
GV II
Row of three houses and shops possibly built by Secretary
Thurloe in 1658 for his sons; interiors gutted by fire c.1940.
No. 8 was the home of Thomas Clarkson (b.1760, d.1846). Local
brown brick with limestone dressings. Two storeys with attics
and basements; gabled street facade. Rusticated stone jambs,
moulded stone copings to parapets with finials. Stone window
jambs and cornice to three hung sash attic windows. Stone band
links six first floor hung sash windows with glazing bars.
No. 8 with two hung sash windows to left of entrance with stone
steps, six-panelled door and rectangular fanlight with shaped
wooden brackets to flat canopy; railings to basement forecourt.
No. 7 has late C19 shop windows and central door and No. 9
modern shop window. Plaque on east gable, blue and gold with
cross-keys, commemorates that Clarkson lived there.
VCH Cambs, p.242.
Gardiner, History of Wisbech, p.280, 1898.
Listing NGR: TF4609509596
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48212
- 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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