1, The Crescent

WISBECH THE CRESCENT TF 4609 6/25 No. 1 GV II

Terrace house built c.1793 in two terraces linked by pair of houses sharing common pedimented facade dated 1808 and the Weslyan Chapel, 1803 built by Joseph Medworth (b.1752, d.1827), as part of the planned circus of the Castle Estate. Local brown brick; slate roof and side stack. Three storeys and basement; two 'bays'. Stone coped parapet with painted stone bands at first and second floors. Three recessed hung sash windows without glazing bars in cambered gauged red brick arches with painted reveals and stone cills. Two stone steps to entrance left of centre with six-panelled door and plain fanlight in double recessed, red gauged brick arch. Interior has original closed string staircase with turned balusters. NMR (C. Godfrey, Wisbech photographic collection), 1982. Colvin, p.386, 1954. VCH Cambs, p.242. G. Annis, A History of Wisbech Castle, 1977. Walker and Craddock, History of Wisbech, p.278, 1849. Watson, prints, History of Wisbech, 1827.

Listing NGR: TF4622709537