Description

WISBECH ELY PLACE
TF 4609
6/44 No. 5
GV II

Terrace house built c.1797, part of the planned circus of the
Castle Estate designed and built by Joseph Medworth (b.1752,
d.1827). Local brown brick; slate roof with side stack. Three
storeys with basement, four 'bays'. Stone coping to parapet and
cill band. Windows all recessed hung sashes with four panes
except one twelve-paned at ground floor, in cambered gauged red
brick arches and stone cills. Three second floor, one first
floor, and one ground floor blind windows. Wooden doorcase with
broken pediment, half-round fluted pilasters, six-panelled door
with radial glazing bars to fanlight. Royal, fire insurance
plaque.
NMR (C. Gregory, Wisbech photographic collection), 1982.
A.A. Oldham, Fire Marks, 1955, W. & F. flus.
Colvin, p.286,1954.
VCH Cambs, p.242.
G. Annis, A History of Wisbech Castle, 1977.
Walker and Craddock, p.278, History of Wisbech, 1849.
Watson, prints, History of Wisbech, 1827.

Listing NGR: TF4624309572

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26419612

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