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Latitude: 52.6645 / 52°39'52"N
Longitude: 0.1604 / 0°9'37"E
OS Eastings: 546196
OS Northings: 309614
OS Grid: TF461096
Mapcode National: GBR L1Q.Z8N
Mapcode Global: WHJPH.F9L4
Plus Code: 9F42M576+R4
Entry Name: 1, Union Place
Listing Date: 31 October 1983
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1229942
English Heritage Legacy ID: 48462
ID on this website: 101229942
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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WISBECH UNION PLACE
TF 4609
6/255 No. 1
GV II
Terrace house built c.1800, one of six houses built as part of
the planned circus of the Castle Estate by Joseph Medworth
(c.1754, d.1827). Local brown brick; red pantile roof and side
stack. Three storeys and basement. Shallow parapet with stone
copings. Painted stone cill band at first floor. Three, second
floor, nine-paned recessed hung sash windows with painted
reveals and stone cills in cambered, gauged red brick arches.
Three first floor and two ground floor twelve-paned hung sash
windows in similar openings. Wooden doorcase with fluted
pilasters and broken pediment, plain round-headed fanlight and
six-panelled door. Interior has a blocked archway to an
original bay window in rear elevation; plain, closed-string
staircase with Chinese Chippendale balustrade panel, original
six-panelled door and panelled window case.
NMR (C. Godfrey, Wisbech photographic collection), 1982.
Pevsner, Buildings in England, p.502.
VCH Cambs, p.242.
Colvin, p.386, 1950.
Photographs and prints, C18 and C19, W. & F. Mus.
Three Histories of Wisbech, 1827, 1849 and 1897.
G. Annis, History of Wisbech Castle, 1977.
Listing NGR: TF4619609614
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