28 And 29, Old Market

WISBECH OLD MARKET TF 4509 TF 4609 (West Side) 5/229 6/229 Nos. 28 and 29 GV II

Mid C18 pair of houses. Red brick with slate roofs. Three storeys, six 'bays', central two 'bays' slightly projecting with pedimented parapet. Central ogee-headed second floor window with interlacing glazing bars in gauged, red brick arch, with Palladian first floor window above matching entrances. Two six- panelled doors and patterned fanlights recessed in wooden, round-headed doorcases with fluted pilasters and shared broken pediment. Stone step. Flanking 'bays' have stone bands at first and second floors with four, second floor, six-paned recessed hung sash windows in cambered gauged red brick arches, and four similar first floor twelve-paned windows. Hung sash windows at ground floor without glazing bars. Interior has two similar original staircases. VCH Cambs, p.243. Pevsner, Buildings in England, p.499.

Listing NGR: TF4599809760