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Latitude: 52.6643 / 52°39'51"N
Longitude: 0.1595 / 0°9'34"E
OS Eastings: 546135
OS Northings: 309583
OS Grid: TF461095
Mapcode National: GBR L1Q.YZP
Mapcode Global: WHJPH.F95B
Plus Code: 9F42M575+PQ
Entry Name: 2, YORK ROW (See details for further address information)
Listing Date: 17 January 1951
Last Amended: 31 October 1983
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1331991
English Heritage Legacy ID: 48207
ID on this website: 101331991
Location: Wisbech, Fenland, Cambridgeshire, PE13
County: Cambridgeshire
District: Fenland
Civil Parish: Wisbech
Built-Up Area: Wisbech
Traditional County: Cambridgeshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cambridgeshire
Church of England Parish: Wisbech St Peter and St Paul
Church of England Diocese: Ely
Tagged with: Building
The entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21 September 2017.
WISBECH CASTLE SQUARE
TF 4609
(South Side)
6/11 No. 2 (York Row)
GV II
House built c.1797. One of a terrace of houses continuing from
the Crescent along York Row, part of the planned circus of the
Castle Estate, designed and built by Joseph Medworth (b,1752,
d.1827) from 1793 to 1816. Local brown brick; slate roof, side
stack. Three storeys and basement, three 'bays'. Stone coped
parapet, painted stone bands at first and second floor. Three,
nine-pane hung sash windows recessed in cambered, red gauged
brick arches with stone cills. Three, twelve-pane hung sash
windows in similar openings at first floor; two ground floor
windows with half glazing bars removed. Wooden doorcase with
broken pediment and fluted half-round columns. Six-panelled
door and fanlight with patterned glazing bars. Two stone steps.
NMR (C. Gregory, Wisbech photographic collection), 1982.
Pevsner, Buildings in England, p.502.
Colvin, p.386, 1950.
VCH Cambs, p.242.
Annis G., A History of Wisbech Castle, 1977.
Gardiner, History of Wisbech, p.43, 1898.
Watson, History of Wisbech prints, 1827.
Walker and Craddock, History of Wisbech, p.278, 1849.
Listing NGR: TF4613509580
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