Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26523666

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability