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Latitude: 52.6641 / 52°39'50"N
Longitude: 0.1613 / 0°9'40"E
OS Eastings: 546260
OS Northings: 309567
OS Grid: TF462095
Mapcode National: GBR L1Q.ZJK
Mapcode Global: WHJPH.G91H
Plus Code: 9F42M576+JG
Entry Name: The Museum
Listing Date: 10 February 1969
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1126669
English Heritage Legacy ID: 48325
ID on this website: 101126669
Location: Wisbech, Fenland, Cambridgeshire, PE13
County: Cambridgeshire
District: Fenland
Civil Parish: Wisbech
Built-Up Area: Wisbech
Traditional County: Cambridgeshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cambridgeshire
Church of England Parish: Wisbech St Peter and St Paul
Church of England Diocese: Ely
Tagged with: Local museum Museum building Independent museum
The following previous listing date shall be added.
Page 55 Item number 6/127 10.2.69
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WISBECH MUSEUM SQUARE
TF 4609
(North Side)
6/127 The Museum
GV II*
Museum, one of the first to be designed in the country,
architect George Buckler (b.1811-86). Built in 1846-7. Grey
gault brick with stone dressings; slate roofs with two stacks.
Two storeys and half-basements; two rear wings extended in
1884. Symmetrical facade with entrance bay recessed. Deep,
moulded dentil cornice and stone frieze band. Rainwater head
taken from Albion Place dated 1722 with cross-keys. Main
entrance approached by seven stone steps with iron railings.
Quasi-Doric porch, including side-lights, to half-glazed double
doors. Two, first floor, and two larger ground floor
three-light hung sash windows with console brackets to cills and
deep cornices. Four stone piers terminate low garden wall with
stone copings, originally with iron railings. Interior has
entrance hall with top lit central hall to rear. Long display
hall to left hand with gallery on three sides and two open
string staircases with patterned cast iron balusters. Library
to right hand exended 1884. All rooms fitted with original
display cases and bookcases.
VCH Cambs, p.243.
Gardiner, History of Wisbech, p,199.
Pevsner, Buildings in England, p.502.
Wisbech Society Annual Report, 1960.
Craddock and Walker, History of Wisbech, p.433.
A. Peckover, Watercolour, W. & F. Mus.
S. Smith, photographic collection, W. & F. Mus, 1853-8.
P.H. Peckover, photographic collection, p,121, 1931.
Listing NGR: TF4626009567
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