Description

WISBECH OLD MARKET
TF 4509 TF 4609
(West Side)
5/229 6/229 Nos. 28 and 29
GV II

Mid C18 pair of houses. Red brick with slate roofs. Three
storeys, six 'bays', central two 'bays' slightly projecting with
pedimented parapet. Central ogee-headed second floor window
with interlacing glazing bars in gauged, red brick arch, with
Palladian first floor window above matching entrances. Two six-
panelled doors and patterned fanlights recessed in wooden,
round-headed doorcases with fluted pilasters and shared broken
pediment. Stone step. Flanking 'bays' have stone bands at
first and second floors with four, second floor, six-paned
recessed hung sash windows in cambered gauged red brick arches,
and four similar first floor twelve-paned windows. Hung sash
windows at ground floor without glazing bars. Interior has two
similar original staircases.
VCH Cambs, p.243.
Pevsner, Buildings in England, p.499.

Listing NGR: TF4599809760

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26616533

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  For the Record
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)