9, The Crescent

WISBECH THE CRESCENT TF 4609 6/33 No. 9 GV II

Terrace house built c.1797 in 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 with irregular window pattern to street facade. Stone coped parapet with painted stone band at first and second floor. One sixteen-paned, first floor, and one, twelve-paned recessed hung sash window at second floor in cambered gauged red brick arches with stone cills. Late C19 ground floor, three-light hung sash window with stone cornice supported on console brackets. Six- panelled door with plain fanlight in recessed, round-headed, gauged red brick arch, approached by two stone steps. Interior has an open string staircase, two arches, one with reeded half-columns. NMR (C. Godfrey photographic collection of Wisbech) 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: TF4615609548