Description

HIGH WICKHAM
1.
5204
Windycroft
TQ 8209 NE 8/406
TQ 8210 19/406
II*
GV
2.
Converted from 2 small houses in 1880 to form a large house. Red brick with elevations
of tile hanging with courses of scalloped tiles. Red tiled hipped roofs. Coved
eaves. Projecting bays with hipped roofs. Rusticated stucco basement. 3 storeys,
attic and basement. Sashes with glazing bars. Asymmetrical plan. Hipped dormer.
Balcony with cast iron balustrade on cast iron brackets. Brick chimney stack.
Interesting interior: with mosaic floors, a double staircase hall, a large music
room based on accoustically correct dimensions. Wall papers throughout the house
are original William Morris. Tiling by De Morgan to many fireplace surrounds.
Fine timberwork to all rooms. Graded II* for the interior.

Nos 3 to 18 (consec) including windycroft form a group of which Nos 4, 5, 15, 16
17 and 18 are of local interest only.

Listing NGR: TQ8299810001

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Windycroft at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17555478

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Recommended Books

• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)