Description

WISBECH THE CRESCENT
TF 4609
6/30 No. 6
GV II*

Terrace house built c.1793, possibly retaining most original
features and for this is particular noteworthy. Two terraces
linked by pair of houses sharing common pedimented facade dated
1808 and the Weslyan Chapel, 1803 built by Joseph Medworth
(b.1752, d.1827), as part of the planned circus of the Castle
Estate. Local brown brick; slate roof and side stack. Three
storeys and basement; two 'bays'. Stone coped parapet with
painted stone bands at first and second floors. Two second
floor twelve-paned recessed hung sash windows in cambered gauged
red brick arches with stone cills. Two, sixteen-paned first and
ground floor windows in similar openings. Left hand entrance
approached by two steps with six-panelled door and patterned
fanlight with glazing bars in double recessed round headed arch
of gauged red brick. Rear windows all sixteen-paned hung sashes
in segmental arches and similar basement window. Interior has
original open-string staircase, three original chimney pieces,
panelled window cases and round headed arched cupboard. Iron
range by F. Ford, Wisbech in service basement with contemporary
C19 chimney piece.
NMR (C. Godfrey, Wisbech photographic collection), 1982.
Colvin, p.386, 1954. VCH Cambs, p.242.
G. Annis, A History of Wisbech Castle, 1977.
Walker and Craddock, History of Wisbech, p.278, 1849.
Watson, prints, History of Wisbech, 1827.

Listing NGR: TF4619209529

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17543819

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6