5 Market Place
5, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1331637
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1976
- List Entry Name:
- 5 Market Place
- Statutory Address:
- 5, MARKET PLACE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1331637
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1976
- List Entry Name:
- 5 Market Place
- Statutory Address 1:
- 5, MARKET PLACE
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:
- 5, MARKET PLACE
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 46264 09616
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 08/12/2014.
WISBECH MARKET PLACE
TF 4609
(South Side)
6/84 No. 5
(Formerly listed as Clarkes Music Services)
19.11.76 GV II
Shop, C18, with C17 basement and forecourt covered possibly in
C19. Local brown brick. Four storeys, two 'bays'. Shallow
parapet with stone copings. Two second and third floor
recessed, sixteen-paned hung sash windows in cambered gauged
brick arches and two replacement casement windows at first
floor. Good late C19 shop windows and interior with original
glazed door. Brass cap to plinth engraved 'PIANOES AND
REPAIRS', 'TUNING AND ORGANS'. Interior above shop has one good
Adam style chimney piece, and C17 ovolo moulded ceiling beam in
basement with brick stair to street, other details largely C19,
include linking passage to converted C18 brick storehouse of two
storeys to rear.
Listing NGR: TF4626409616
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48281
- 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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