6, Union Place

WISBECH UNION PLACE TF 4609 6/260 No. 6 GV II

Terrace house built c.1800 (later than No. 4) occupying a corner position beside the Congregational chapel in Castle Square, 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; side stack. Three storeys and basement with symmetrical three bays to Union Place. Painted stone cill band and rendered plinth. Two, second floor, sixteen-paned recessed hung sash windows in cambered, red gauged brick arches flanking central blind window with brick panel. Three similar but larger first floor and ground floor windows with twelve-paned hung sash window above entrance. Wooden doorcase with fluted pilasters and broken pediment, plain round-headed fanlight and five- panelled door. Interior has an original six-panelled door and sunk-panelled chimney piece. 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: TF4616109607