1 And 2, Old Market

Nos. 1 and 2 Old Market are two late 18th century houses located on the east side of Wisbech Old Market. No. 1 features a symmetrical five-bay façade, while No. 2 is slightly recessed and has three bays. Both houses are built of local amber brick and have interlocking roof tiles, with slate roofs on three rear wings. They rise to three storeys and include end stacks and a ridge stack. The buildings have a parapet with stone copings and a moulded cornice, and all windows have stone cills.

There are eight twelve-paned, recessed, hung sash windows on the first floor and six on the ground floor, all set in cambered gauged brick arches. The attic features eight similar six-paned windows. Each house has a matching doorcase with round-headed gauged brick arches and cast-iron glazing bars in the fanlight. The wooden doorcases include fluted half-columns and a frieze band, with doors that have six raised and fielded panels. Stone steps lead to each entrance.

Inside, the houses contain two original chimneypieces, a cornice and dado in the rear first-floor room, and panelled doors with shutters at the windows. An open-string staircase features a raking mahogany handrail and plain balusters, topped by a lantern with a conical light.