ASTRAL HOUSE

ASTRAL HOUSE, 33, OLD MARKET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1229852
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-1969
List Entry Name:: ASTRAL HOUSE
Statutory Address:: ASTRAL HOUSE, 33, OLD MARKET

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Date:: 2001-06-24
Reference:: IOE01/04158/24
Rights:: © Mr John Giles. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1229852
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-1969
List Entry Name:: ASTRAL HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: ASTRAL HOUSE, 33, OLD MARKET

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:: ASTRAL HOUSE, 33, OLD MARKET

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 45989 09809

Details

TF 4509 5/233 WISBECH OLD MARKET (North Side) No. 33 (Astral House formerly Glan Dyfy)

10.2.69

GV II Early C19 house. Local gault brick, roof concealed by parparet with stone coping. Three stacks. Three storeys and basement, five 'bays' with apsidal rear wing of two storeys with basement. Central main entrance approached by four stone steps, plain pilastered stone doorcase with cornice and recessed four panelled door and rectangular fanlight. Five, six-paned recessed, second floor hung sash windows in flat gauged brick arches; similar, twelve-paned windows at second and ground floors. Rear wing has large three-light hung sash window curved to segmental plan.

Interior has original cornices to ceilings with good centre pieces. Plain open-string staircase with raking handrail and slender newel posts. Six-panelled door with embossed panels.

VCH Cambs, p.243. NMR (C. Godfrey, Wisbech Collection), 1982. Photographs and prints, C18 and C19, W. & F. Mus.

Listing NGR: TF4598909809

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Legacy System number:: 48440
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Salzman, L F , The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1953), 243

Legal

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