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CASTLE SQUARE (See details for further address information)

A Grade II Listed Building in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire

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Latitude: 52.6644 / 52°39'51"N

Longitude: 0.1589 / 0°9'31"E

OS Eastings: 546095

OS Northings: 309596

OS Grid: TF460095

Mapcode National: GBR L1Q.YTG

Mapcode Global: WHJPH.D9W7

Plus Code: 9F42M575+QG

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: 1228644

English Heritage Legacy ID: 48212

ID on this website: 101228644

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

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Description


The entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21 September 2017.

WISBECH CASTLE SQUARE
TF 4609
(South Side)
6/16 Nos. 7, 8 and 9
(York Row)
GV II

Row of three houses and shops possibly built by Secretary
Thurloe in 1658 for his sons; interiors gutted by fire c.1940.
No. 8 was the home of Thomas Clarkson (b.1760, d.1846). Local
brown brick with limestone dressings. Two storeys with attics
and basements; gabled street facade. Rusticated stone jambs,
moulded stone copings to parapets with finials. Stone window
jambs and cornice to three hung sash attic windows. Stone band
links six first floor hung sash windows with glazing bars.
No. 8 with two hung sash windows to left of entrance with stone
steps, six-panelled door and rectangular fanlight with shaped
wooden brackets to flat canopy; railings to basement forecourt.
No. 7 has late C19 shop windows and central door and No. 9
modern shop window. Plaque on east gable, blue and gold with
cross-keys, commemorates that Clarkson lived there.
VCH Cambs, p.242.
Gardiner, History of Wisbech, p.280, 1898.


Listing NGR: TF4609509596

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