Gate Piers (Three Pairs) And Garden Wall to the Castle

GATE PIERS (THREE PAIRS) AND GARDEN WALL TO THE CASTLE, MUSEUM SQUARE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1229184
Date first listed:
10-Feb-1969
List Entry Name:
Gate Piers (Three Pairs) And Garden Wall to the Castle
Statutory Address:
GATE PIERS (THREE PAIRS) AND GARDEN WALL TO THE CASTLE, MUSEUM SQUARE
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1229184
Date first listed:
10-Feb-1969
List Entry Name:
Gate Piers (Three Pairs) And Garden Wall to the Castle
Statutory Address 1:
GATE PIERS (THREE PAIRS) AND GARDEN WALL TO THE CASTLE, MUSEUM SQUARE

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
GATE PIERS (THREE PAIRS) AND GARDEN WALL TO THE CASTLE, MUSEUM 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 46228 09561

Details

The following previous listing date shall be added.

Page 53 Item number 6/121 10.2.69

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WISBECH MUSEUM SQUARE TF 4609 (West Side) 6/121 Gate Piers (three pairs) and Garden Wall to The Castle GV II

Gate piers of rusticated limestone with deeply moulded cornices to caps and ball finials c.1656 resited. One pair now flank the main east entrance to The Castle, and two other pairs now with entrances sealed face Market Street and The Crescent. The red brick garden walls, partly coped with reused moulded stone was possibly built c.1800. G. Annis, A History of Wisbech Castle, 1977. Cambs. C.C., measured drawings by R. Walker, 1983.

Listing NGR: TF4622809561

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Annis, G, A History of Wisbech Castle, (1977)

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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.

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