CASTLE SQUARE (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) 6/16 Nos. 7, 8 and 9 (York Row) GV II

Row of three houses and shops possibly built by Secretary Thurloe in 1658 for his sons; interiors gutted by fire c.1940. No. 8 was the home of Thomas Clarkson (b.1760, d.1846). Local brown brick with limestone dressings. Two storeys with attics and basements; gabled street facade. Rusticated stone jambs, moulded stone copings to parapets with finials. Stone window jambs and cornice to three hung sash attic windows. Stone band links six first floor hung sash windows with glazing bars. No. 8 with two hung sash windows to left of entrance with stone steps, six-panelled door and rectangular fanlight with shaped wooden brackets to flat canopy; railings to basement forecourt. No. 7 has late C19 shop windows and central door and No. 9 modern shop window. Plaque on east gable, blue and gold with cross-keys, commemorates that Clarkson lived there. VCH Cambs, p.242. Gardiner, History of Wisbech, p.280, 1898.

Listing NGR: TF4609509596