Castle Lodge
CASTLE LODGE, 1, MUSEUM SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279201
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jul-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- CASTLE LODGE, 1, MUSEUM SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279201
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jul-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- CASTLE LODGE, 1, MUSEUM 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:
- CASTLE LODGE, 1, 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 46246 09536
Details
The following previous listing date shall be added.
Page 54 Item number 6/123 25.7.69
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WISBECH MUSEUM SQUARE TF 4609 (South Side) 6/123 No. 1 (Castle Lodge) GV II
House built c.1816 using some of the material from The Castle built in 1656 possibly by Peter Mills and demolished in 1816 by Joseph Medworth. Grey gault brick with stone dressings; slate roofs and side stacks. Two storeys and attics; double pile, symmetrical facade. Shaped parapets with stone copings, moulded stone cornice, band between floors and moulded stone plinth. Rusticated stone quoins. Moulded stone architraves to two first floor, and two large ground floor sixteen-paned hung sash windows. Doorcase, reused with rectangular fanlight, two carved wooden brackets support a canopy with iron railings. Casement window to first floor balcony with panelled lower doors. Entrance door originally six-panelled. South-east elevation has six plastered blind windows in moulded stone architraves, a mediaeval carved stone in plinth. Interior has open string staircase and other original details. N.M.R. (C. Godfrey, Wisbech photographic collection), 1982. Pevsner, Buildings in England, p.502. G. Annis, A History of Wisbech Castle, 1977. Prints and photographs, W. & F. Mus.
Listing NGR: TF4624609536
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48321
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Annis, G, A History of Wisbech Castle, (1977)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970)
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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