Description

TF 4509
5/233

WISBECH
OLD MARKET (North Side)
No. 33 (Astral House formerly Glan Dyfy)

10.2.69

GV
II
Early C19 house. Local gault brick, roof concealed by parparet with stone coping. Three stacks. Three storeys and basement, five 'bays' with apsidal rear wing of two storeys with basement. Central main entrance approached by four stone steps, plain pilastered stone doorcase with cornice and recessed four panelled door and rectangular fanlight. Five, six-paned recessed, second floor hung sash windows in flat gauged brick arches; similar, twelve-paned windows at second and ground floors. Rear wing has large three-light hung sash window curved to segmental plan.

Interior has original cornices to ceilings with good centre pieces. Plain open-string staircase with raking handrail and slender newel posts. Six-panelled door with embossed panels.

VCH Cambs, p.243.
NMR (C. Godfrey, Wisbech Collection), 1982.
Photographs and prints, C18 and C19, W. & F. Mus.

Listing NGR: TF4598909809

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26523592

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas