Latitude: 52.6643 / 52°39'51"N
Longitude: 0.1592 / 0°9'32"E
OS Eastings: 546114
OS Northings: 309590
OS Grid: TF461095
Mapcode National: GBR L1Q.YX2
Mapcode Global: WHJPH.F909
Plus Code: 9F42M575+PM
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: 1228642
English Heritage Legacy ID: 48210
ID on this website: 101228642
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)
6/14 No. 5 (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; four 'bays', with entrance
to side passage at left hand through round headed archway with
stone imposts. Four 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 plain 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: TF4611409590
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