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WISBECH MUSEUM SQUARE
TF 4609
(South Side)
6/123 No. 1 (Castle Lodge)
GV II

House built c.1816 using some of the material from The Castle
built in 1656 possibly by Peter Mills and demolished in 1816 by
Joseph Medworth. Grey gault brick with stone dressings; slate
roofs and side stacks. Two storeys and attics; double pile,
symmetrical facade. Shaped parapets with stone copings, moulded
stone cornice, band between floors and moulded stone plinth.
Rusticated stone quoins. Moulded stone architraves to two first
floor, and two large ground floor sixteen-paned hung sash
windows. Doorcase, reused with rectangular fanlight, two carved
wooden brackets support a canopy with iron railings. Casement
window to first floor balcony with panelled lower doors.
Entrance door originally six-panelled. South-east elevation has
six plastered blind windows in moulded stone architraves, a
mediaeval carved stone in plinth. Interior has open string
staircase and other original details.
N.M.R. (C. Godfrey, Wisbech photographic collection), 1982.
Pevsner, Buildings in England, p.502.
G. Annis, A History of Wisbech Castle, 1977.
Prints and photographs, W. & F. Mus.

Listing NGR: TF4624609536

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26568439

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