Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26568105

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)