Description

WISBECH ELY PLACE TF 4609 6/44 No. 5 GV II

Terrace house built c.1797, part of the planned circus of the Castle Estate designed and built by Joseph Medworth (b.1752, d.1827). Local brown brick; slate roof with side stack. Three storeys with basement, four 'bays'. Stone coping to parapet and cill band. Windows all recessed hung sashes with four panes except one twelve-paned at ground floor, in cambered gauged red brick arches and stone cills. Three second floor, one first floor, and one ground floor blind windows. Wooden doorcase with broken pediment, half-round fluted pilasters, six-panelled door with radial glazing bars to fanlight. Royal, fire insurance plaque. NMR (C. Gregory, Wisbech photographic collection), 1982. A.A. Oldham, Fire Marks, 1955, W. & F. flus. 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: TF4624309572

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)