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Latitude: 52.6663 / 52°39'58"N
Longitude: 0.1584 / 0°9'30"E
OS Eastings: 546055
OS Northings: 309809
OS Grid: TF460098
Mapcode National: GBR L1Q.YNX
Mapcode Global: WHJPH.D7NR
Plus Code: 9F42M585+G9
Entry Name: 1 and 2, Old Market
Listing Date: 31 October 1983
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1229806
English Heritage Legacy ID: 48424
ID on this website: 101229806
Location: Wisbech, Fenland, Cambridgeshire, PE13
County: Cambridgeshire
District: Fenland
Civil Parish: Wisbech
Built-Up Area: Wisbech
Traditional County: Cambridgeshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cambridgeshire
Church of England Parish: Wisbech St Peter and St Paul
Church of England Diocese: Ely
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WISBECH OLD MARKET
TF 4609
(East Side)
6/217 Nos. 1 and 2
GV II*
Two late C18 houses; No. 1, symmetrical five 'bays', No. 2,
slightly recessed three 'bays'. Local amber brick with inter-
locking roof tiles; slate roofs to three rear wings. Three
storeys. End stacks and ridge stack. Parapet with stone
copings and moulded cornice. Stone cills to all windows. Eight
first floor, and six ground floor, twelve-paned, recessed, hung
sash windows, in cambered gauged brick arches. Eight similar
attic windows of six panes. Two matching doorcases in round-
headed gauged brick arches with cast-iron glazing bars to
fanlight. Wooden doorcase has fluted half-columns and frieze
band. Doors with six raised and fielded panels. Stone steps to
each entrance. Interior has two good original chimneypieces;
cornice and dado to rear first floor room; panelled doors and
shutters to windows. Open-string staircase with raking mahogony
hand rail and plain balusters. Lantern above staircase with
conical light.
NMR (C. Gregory, Wisbech photographic collection), 1982.
Pevsner, Buildings in England, p.499.
VCH Cambs, p.243.
Photographs and prints, C18 and C19, W. & F. Mus.
Craddock and Walker, History of Wisbech, 1847.
Fielden and Mawson, Arch. Wisbech Consultants' Report, 1974.
Listing NGR: TF4605509809
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