35 Market Place

35, MARKET PLACE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1331642
Date first listed:
10-Feb-1969
List Entry Name:
35 Market Place
Statutory Address:
35, MARKET PLACE
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1331642
Date first listed:
10-Feb-1969
List Entry Name:
35 Market Place
Statutory Address 1:
35, MARKET PLACE

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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:
35, 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 46219 09707

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 08/12/2014.

The following previous listing date shall be added.

Page 45 Item number 6/102 10.2.69


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WISBECH MARKET PLACE
TF 4609
(North Side)
6/102 No. 35

(Formerly listed as George Inn)

GV II

Shop, formerly George Inn dating from c.1500. Original building timber-framed and
jettied to street with brick vaulted undercroft or semi-
basement. Red, plain tile roof, and street elevation of
rendered timber-frame with applied timber-decoration c.1936.
Two storeys. Three facade gables; two bay windows of six lights
with transomes flank central two-light casement window at first
floor. Three similar ground floor windows of five lights.
Entrance approached by steps, recessed, to right of centre.
Rear elevation shows exposed timber-frame and carved pilaster
details to original openings. First floor rebuilt above jetty
but intact in side elevation. Interior has very fine moulded
ceiling beams to ground floor rooms, and an original window with
rubbed brick jambs and hollow-chamfer mullion to undercroft.
P.H. Peckover, photographic collection, 1931, W. & F. Mus.
Gardiner, History of Wisbech, p.26, p.42, 1898.
A.A. Oldham, Inns and Taverns of Wisbech, W. Ref. Lib., 1950.
VCH Cambs, p.242.


Listing NGR: TF4621909707

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
48300
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Gardiner, F J, History of Wisbech and Neighbourhood, (1898), 42
Gardiner, F J, History of Wisbech and Neighbourhood, (1898), 26
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1953), 242
Oldham, A A, Inns and Taverns of Wisbech, (1950)

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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