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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26568607

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