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Latitude: 52.6645 / 52°39'52"N
Longitude: 0.16 / 0°9'35"E
OS Eastings: 546168
OS Northings: 309613
OS Grid: TF461096
Mapcode National: GBR L1Q.Z4S
Mapcode Global: WHJPH.F9D4
Plus Code: 9F42M575+RX
Entry Name: 5, Union Place
Listing Date: 31 October 1983
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1278826
English Heritage Legacy ID: 48466
ID on this website: 101278826
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
6/259 No. 5
GV II
Terrace house built c.1800, later than No. 4, 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; slate roof
with C19 ridge tiles; side stack. Three storeys with basement.
Shallow parapet with stone copings. Painted stone cill band at
first floor. Three, second floor, nine-paned recessed hung sash
windows in cambered, red gauged brick arches. Three similar but
larger first floor and two ground floor windows. Wooden
doorcase with fluted pilasters and broken pediment, plain
round-headed fanlight and five-panelled door.
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: TF4616809613
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