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Latitude: 52.6642 / 52°39'51"N
Longitude: 0.1596 / 0°9'34"E
OS Eastings: 546142
OS Northings: 309578
OS Grid: TF461095
Mapcode National: GBR L1Q.Z10
Mapcode Global: WHJPH.F96C
Plus Code: 9F42M575+MR
Entry Name: CASTLE SQUARE (See details for further address information)
Listing Date: 17 July 1951
Last Amended: 31 October 1983
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1228621
English Heritage Legacy ID: 48206
ID on this website: 101228621
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: House
The entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21 September 2017.
WISBECH CASTLE SQUARE
TF 4609
(South Side)
6/10 No. 1 (York Row)
GV II
Corner 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' on both street facades. Stone coped parapet with painted
stone bands at first and second floor. Plastered plinth.
Crescent facade has two, recessed nine-pane hung sash windows in
cambered gauged red brick arches and stone cills, and one,
painted blind window. Two, second floor twelve-pane windows in
similar openings and one blind window. Three ground floor hung
sash windows without glazing bars. York Row facade has similar
window pattern without blind windows. Windows at first floor
have half glazing bars removed. Main entrance to left hand in
recessed round headed red gauged brick arch with two stone
steps. C19 four-panelled door and plain fanlight. Interior has
original closed string staircase, panelled doors and archways
and window-cases. One adam style and two c.1900 chimney pieces.
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: TF4613509580
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