Description

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WISBECH MARKET PLACE
TF 4609
(West Side)
6/98 No. 29

(Formerly listed as Oldham Chemists)

GV II*

Late C18 shop. Local brown brick; red pantile roof, stack to
right hand. Shallow parapet with stone coping. Three storeys,
one 'bay'. Two, sixteen-paned recessed hung sash windows in
cambered, gauged red brick arches and brick bands between
floors. Modern shop at ground floor. Remains of three-bayed
vault in semi-basement, mediaeval. Two bays destroyed when shop
floor was lowered. One bay intact with moulded ribs springing
from stone corbels with finely carved centre boss.
Walker and Craddock, History of Wisbech, p.419, print of crypt.
VCH Cambs, p.242.

Listing NGR: TF4618109715

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17543710

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas