Description

The entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21 September 2017.

WISBECH CASTLE SQUARE
TF 4609
(South Side)
6/13 No. 4 (York Row)
GV II

House built c.1797. One of a terrace of houses continuing from
the Crescent along York Row, part of the planned circus of the
Castle Estate, designed and built by Joseph Medworth (b.1752,
d.1827) from 1793 to 1816. Local brown brick; slate roof, side
stack. Three storeys and basement; three 'bays'. Stone coped
parapet, painted stone bands at first and second floor. Three,
hung sash windows without glazing bars recessed in cambered red
brick arches with stone cills at first and second floor. Two
similar windows to right hand of entrance. Wooden doorcase with
broken pediment and fluted half-round columns. Six panelled
door and fanlight with patterned glazing bars. Two stone steps.
NMR (C. Gregory, Wisbech photographic collection), 1982.
Pevsner, Buildings in England, p.502.
Colvin, p.386, 1950.
VCH Cambs, p.242.
Annis G., A History of Wisbech Castle, 1977.
Gardiner, History of Wisbech, p.43, 1898.
Watson, History of Wisbech prints, 1827.
Walker and Craddock, History of Wisbech, p.278;1849.

Listing NGR: TF4611109546

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26418901

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