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WISBECH CASTLE SQUARE TF 4609 (South Side) 6/14 No. 5 (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; four 'bays', with entrance to side passage at left hand through round headed archway with stone imposts. Four hung sash windows without glazing bars recessed in cambered red brick arches with stone cills at first and second floor. Two similar windows to right hand of entrance. Wooden doorcase with broken pediment and fluted half-round columns. Six panelled door and plain 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: TF4611409590