2, UNION PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1331652
Date first listed:: 31-Oct-1983
List Entry Name:: 2, UNION PLACE
Statutory Address:: 2, UNION PLACE

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Date:: 2005-02-16
Reference:: IOE01/13609/31
Rights:: © Mr Peter D. Dewar. Source: Historic England Archive

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1331652
Date first listed:: 31-Oct-1983
List Entry Name:: 2, UNION PLACE
Statutory Address 1:: 2, UNION PLACE

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:: 2, UNION 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 46188 09617

Details

WISBECH UNION PLACE TF 4609 6/256 No. 2 GV II

Terrace house built c.1800, one of six houses built as part of the planned circus of the Castle Estate by Joseph Medworth (c.1754, d.1827). Local brown brick; slate roof and side stack. Three storeys and basement. Three 'bays'. Shallow parapet with stone copings. Painted stone cill band at first floor. Three, second floor, nine-paned recessed hung sash windows in cambered, gauged red brick arches and stone cills. Three first floor and two ground floor twelve-paned hung sash windows in similar openings. Wooden doorcase with fluted pilasters and broken pediment, plain round-headed fanlight and six-panelled door. Rear C19, two storey wooden panelled extension with brick foundations. Interior has two original chimney pieces with sunk panels and reeded decoration. NMR (C. Godfrey, Wisbech photographic collection), 1982. Pevsner, Buildings in England, p.502. VCH Cambs, p.242. Colvin, p.386, 1950. Photographs and prints, C18 and C19, W. & F. Mus. Three Histories of Wisbech, 1827, 1849 and 1897. G. Annis, History of Wisbech Castle, 1977.

Listing NGR: TF4618809617

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

Legacy System number:: 48463
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Annis, G, A History of Wisbech Castle, (1977)
Colvin, H M , A Biographical Dictionary of English Architects 1600-1840, (1954), 386
Gardiner, F J, History of Wisbech and Neighbourhood, (1898)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 502
Salzman, L F , The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1953), 242
Walker, N, Craddock, T , The History of Wisbech and the Fens, (1849)
Watson, W, An Historical Account of the Ancient Town and Port of Wisbech, (1827)

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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.