Description

WISBECH UNION PLACE
TF 4609
6/256 No. 2
GV II

Terrace house built c.1800, 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 and side
stack. Three storeys and basement. Three 'bays'. Shallow
parapet with stone copings. Painted stone cill band at first
floor. Three, second floor, nine-paned recessed hung sash
windows in cambered, gauged red brick arches and stone cills.
Three first floor and two ground floor twelve-paned hung sash
windows in similar openings. Wooden doorcase with fluted
pilasters and broken pediment, plain round-headed fanlight and
six-panelled door. Rear C19, two storey wooden panelled
extension with brick foundations. Interior has two original
chimney pieces with sunk panels and reeded decoration.
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: TF4618809617

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26616536

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