Description

WISBECH OLD MARKET
TF 4609
(East Side)
6/217 Nos. 1 and 2
GV II*

Two late C18 houses; No. 1, symmetrical five 'bays', No. 2,
slightly recessed three 'bays'. Local amber brick with inter-
locking roof tiles; slate roofs to three rear wings. Three
storeys. End stacks and ridge stack. Parapet with stone
copings and moulded cornice. Stone cills to all windows. Eight
first floor, and six ground floor, twelve-paned, recessed, hung
sash windows, in cambered gauged brick arches. Eight similar
attic windows of six panes. Two matching doorcases in round-
headed gauged brick arches with cast-iron glazing bars to
fanlight. Wooden doorcase has fluted half-columns and frieze
band. Doors with six raised and fielded panels. Stone steps to
each entrance. Interior has two good original chimneypieces;
cornice and dado to rear first floor room; panelled doors and
shutters to windows. Open-string staircase with raking mahogony
hand rail and plain balusters. Lantern above staircase with
conical light.
NMR (C. Gregory, Wisbech photographic collection), 1982.
Pevsner, Buildings in England, p.499.
VCH Cambs, p.243.
Photographs and prints, C18 and C19, W. & F. Mus.
Craddock and Walker, History of Wisbech, 1847.
Fielden and Mawson, Arch. Wisbech Consultants' Report, 1974.

Listing NGR: TF4605509809

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17543762

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Recommended Books

• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)