3, YORK ROW (See details for further address information)

The entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21 September 2017.

WISBECH CASTLE SQUARE TF 4609 (South Side) 6/12 No. 3 (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. Two, second floor nine-pane recessed hung sash windows in cambered, gauged red brick arches flank central painted blind window. Three, similar, twelve-pane first floor windows, and two without glazing bars to right hand of entrance. Wooden doorcase with broken pediment and fluted half-round columns. Six panelled door and plain fanlight. Two stone steps. Interior has some original doors and window-cases. Original plain closed-string staircase and four chimney pices of C19 dates. 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: TF4612609582