Description

WISBECH UNION PLACE TF 4609 6/259 No. 5 GV II

Terrace house built c.1800, later than No. 4, 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 with C19 ridge tiles; side stack. Three storeys with basement. Shallow parapet with stone copings. Painted stone cill band at first floor. Three, second floor, nine-paned recessed hung sash windows in cambered, red gauged brick arches. Three similar but larger first floor and two ground floor windows. Wooden doorcase with fluted pilasters and broken pediment, plain round-headed fanlight and five-panelled door. 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: TF4616809613

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