35 Market Place

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WISBECH MARKET PLACE TF 4609 (North Side) 6/102 No. 35

(Formerly listed as George Inn)

GV II

Shop, formerly George Inn dating from c.1500. Original building timber-framed and jettied to street with brick vaulted undercroft or semi- basement. Red, plain tile roof, and street elevation of rendered timber-frame with applied timber-decoration c.1936. Two storeys. Three facade gables; two bay windows of six lights with transomes flank central two-light casement window at first floor. Three similar ground floor windows of five lights. Entrance approached by steps, recessed, to right of centre. Rear elevation shows exposed timber-frame and carved pilaster details to original openings. First floor rebuilt above jetty but intact in side elevation. Interior has very fine moulded ceiling beams to ground floor rooms, and an original window with rubbed brick jambs and hollow-chamfer mullion to undercroft. P.H. Peckover, photographic collection, 1931, W. & F. Mus. Gardiner, History of Wisbech, p.26, p.42, 1898. A.A. Oldham, Inns and Taverns of Wisbech, W. Ref. Lib., 1950. VCH Cambs, p.242.

Listing NGR: TF4621909707