4, Union Place

WISBECH UNION PLACE TF 4609 6/258 No. 4 GV II

Terrace house built c.1800, one of six houses built as part of the planned circus of the Castle Estate by Joseph Medworth (c.1754, d.1827). Local brown brick; modern interlocking tile roof and pantile roof. Three storeys and basement, four 'bays' including side passage to right hand with boarded door and painted panel in lieu of fanlight in round-headed brick arch. Main entrance has wooden doorcase with fluted pilasters and broken pediment, plain round-headed fanlight and six-panelled door. Shallow parapet with stone coping. Two, second floor, nine-paned recessed hung sash windows in cambered, gauged red brick arches and stone cills and two painted blind windows. Three first floor and two ground floor twelve-paned hung sash windows in similar openings with one painted blind window at each storey above passage way. Painted stone cill band at first floor. Interior has plain, original staircase, and two, reed-panelled chimney pieces and panelled doors. NMR (C. Godfrey, Wisbech photographic collection), 1982. Pevsner, Buildings in England, p.502. VCH Cambs, p.242. Colvin, p.386, 1950. Photographs and prints, C18 and C19, W. & F. Mus. Three Histories of Wisbech, 1827, 1849 and 1897. G. Annis, History of Wisbech Castle, 1977.

Listing NGR: TF4617409614