Description

WISBECH THE CRESCENT
TF 4609
6/36 No. 12
GV II

Terrace house built c.1797 in two terraces linked by pair of
houses sharing common pedimented facade dated 1808 and the
Weslyan Chapel, 1803 built by Joseph Medworth (b.1752, d.1827),
as part of the planned circus of the Castle Estate. Local brown
brick; slate roof, side stack. Three storeys and basement;
three 'bays'. Stone coping to parapet, and bands at first and
second floors. Three, second floor, nine-paned hung sash
windows in cambered gauged red brick arches and stone cills.
Similar twelve-paned hung sash windows at first floor, and two
ground floor windows without glazing bars. Entrance to right
hand approached by two stone steps, six-panelled door and round-
headed plain fanlight in wooden doorcase of fluted pilasters
with broken pediment. Interior has original staircase,
six-panelled doors and beaten metal art nouveau chimney piece.
NMR (C. Godfrey, photographic collection of Wisbech) 1982.
Colvin, p.386, 1954.
VCH Cambs, p.242.
G. Annis, A History of Wisbech Castle, 1977.
Walker and Craddock, History of Wisbech, p.278, 1849.
Watson, prints, History of Wisbech, 1827.

Listing NGR: TF4614609565

Selected Sources

• Annis, G, A History of Wisbech Castle, (1977)
• Colvin, H M , A Biographical Dictionary of English Architects 1600-1840, (1954), 386
• Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1954), 386
• 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), 278
• Watson, W, An Historical Account of the Ancient Town and Port of Wisbech, (1827)

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