1 And 2, Old Market

WISBECH OLD MARKET TF 4609 (East Side) 6/217 Nos. 1 and 2 GV II*

Two late C18 houses; No. 1, symmetrical five 'bays', No. 2, slightly recessed three 'bays'. Local amber brick with inter- locking roof tiles; slate roofs to three rear wings. Three storeys. End stacks and ridge stack. Parapet with stone copings and moulded cornice. Stone cills to all windows. Eight first floor, and six ground floor, twelve-paned, recessed, hung sash windows, in cambered gauged brick arches. Eight similar attic windows of six panes. Two matching doorcases in round- headed gauged brick arches with cast-iron glazing bars to fanlight. Wooden doorcase has fluted half-columns and frieze band. Doors with six raised and fielded panels. Stone steps to each entrance. Interior has two good original chimneypieces; cornice and dado to rear first floor room; panelled doors and shutters to windows. Open-string staircase with raking mahogony hand rail and plain balusters. Lantern above staircase with conical light. NMR (C. Gregory, Wisbech photographic collection), 1982. Pevsner, Buildings in England, p.499. VCH Cambs, p.243. Photographs and prints, C18 and C19, W. & F. Mus. Craddock and Walker, History of Wisbech, 1847. Fielden and Mawson, Arch. Wisbech Consultants' Report, 1974.

Listing NGR: TF4605509809