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WISBECH CASTLE SQUARE TF 4609 (South Side) 6/10 No. 1 (York Row) GV II

Corner house built c.1797. One of a terrace of houses continuing from the Crescent along York Row, part of the planned circus of the Castle Estate, designed and built by Joseph Medworth (b.1752, d.1827) from 1793 to 1816. Local brown brick; slate roof, side stack. Three storeys and basement, three 'bays' on both street facades. Stone coped parapet with painted stone bands at first and second floor. Plastered plinth. Crescent facade has two, recessed nine-pane hung sash windows in cambered gauged red brick arches and stone cills, and one, painted blind window. Two, second floor twelve-pane windows in similar openings and one blind window. Three ground floor hung sash windows without glazing bars. York Row facade has similar window pattern without blind windows. Windows at first floor have half glazing bars removed. Main entrance to left hand in recessed round headed red gauged brick arch with two stone steps. C19 four-panelled door and plain fanlight. Interior has original closed string staircase, panelled doors and archways and window-cases. One adam style and two c.1900 chimney pieces. NMR (C. Gregory, Wisbech photographic collection), 1982. Pevsner, Buildings in England, p.502. Colvin, p.386, 1950. VCH Cambs, p.242. Annis G., A History of Wisbech Castle, 1977. Gardiner, History of Wisbech, p.43, 1898. Watson, History of Wisbech,prints, 1827. Walker and Craddock, History of Wisbech, p.278, 1849.

Listing NGR: TF4613509580