Description

WISBECH ELY PLACE TF 4609 6/41 Nos. I and 2 GV II

Terrace houses built c.1797, part of the planned circus of the Castle Estate designed and built by Joseph Medworth (b.1752, d.1827). First and second floor rebuilt in modern brown brick, c.1950. Original local brown brick at ground floor. Slate roof; side stacks. No. 1 occupying a corner position with Market Street of four 'bays', No. 2, three 'bays'. Three storeys and basements. Stone copings to parapet and cill band with broad plaster band below. Windows all twelve-paned recessed hung sashes in restored cambered gauged red brick arches, second floor windows smaller, two blind windows to No. 1. Matching wooden doorcases with fluted pilasters and broken pediments, six-panelled doors with radial glazing bars to round- headed fanlight. Interior details recently removed. Included for group value. NMR (G. Gregory, Wisbech photographic collection), 1982. Colvin, p.286,1954. VCH Cambs, p.242. G. Annis, A History of Wisbech Castle,1977. Walker and Craddock, p.278, History of Wisbech, 1849. Watson, prints, History of Wisbech, 1827.

Listing NGR: TF4621809607

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