2, Union Place

WISBECH UNION PLACE TF 4609 6/256 No. 2 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; slate roof and side stack. Three storeys and basement. Three 'bays'. Shallow parapet with stone copings. Painted stone cill band at first floor. Three, second floor, nine-paned recessed hung sash windows in cambered, gauged red brick arches and stone cills. Three first floor and two ground floor twelve-paned hung sash windows in similar openings. Wooden doorcase with fluted pilasters and broken pediment, plain round-headed fanlight and six-panelled door. Rear C19, two storey wooden panelled extension with brick foundations. Interior has two original chimney pieces with sunk panels and reeded decoration. 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: TF4618809617