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1 and 2, Ely Place

A Grade II Listed Building in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.6645 / 52°39'52"N

Longitude: 0.1607 / 0°9'38"E

OS Eastings: 546218

OS Northings: 309607

OS Grid: TF462096

Mapcode National: GBR L1Q.ZC8

Mapcode Global: WHJPH.F9R6

Plus Code: 9F42M576+Q7

Entry Name: 1 and 2, Ely Place

Listing Date: 31 October 1983

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1279383

English Heritage Legacy ID: 48238

ID on this website: 101279383

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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Description


WISBECH ELY PLACE
TF 4609
6/41 Nos. I and 2
GV II

Terrace houses built c.1797, part of the planned circus of the
Castle Estate designed and built by Joseph Medworth (b.1752,
d.1827). First and second floor rebuilt in modern brown brick,
c.1950. Original local brown brick at ground floor. Slate
roof; side stacks. No. 1 occupying a corner position with
Market Street of four 'bays', No. 2, three 'bays'. Three
storeys and basements. Stone copings to parapet and cill band
with broad plaster band below. Windows all twelve-paned
recessed hung sashes in restored cambered gauged red brick
arches, second floor windows smaller, two blind windows to No.
1. Matching wooden doorcases with fluted pilasters and broken
pediments, six-panelled doors with radial glazing bars to round-
headed fanlight. Interior details recently removed. Included
for group value.
NMR (G. Gregory, Wisbech photographic collection), 1982.
Colvin, p.286,1954.
VCH Cambs, p.242.
G. Annis, A History of Wisbech Castle,1977.
Walker and Craddock, p.278, History of Wisbech, 1849.
Watson, prints, History of Wisbech, 1827.


Listing NGR: TF4621809607

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