Description

SU 37 SE WELFORD WICKHAM

11/4 Wickham House

II

Rectory, now house. Early C19 with C20 alterations and additions.
Brick with stone dressings and plain tiled roof. Rectangular plan
with hipped roof and cross-gables to west and south. 3 storeys,
stone moulded cornice and string at first floor with carved stone
animal and flower ornaments. Stone moulded strings to second floor
and base of parapet with carved animal, grotesque, flower and leaf
oranments. Parapet and gable parapets with moulded stone capping, carved
stone figures of a devil, a cross-legged man and an angel as corbels
below stone finials on gables. Plain. rebuilt stacks. West Elevation:-
to left:- C20 wing. To centre:- 3 bays delineated by pilaster strips,
the left two beneath gable. Tall sashes behind stone mullions and
transoms, 2nd floor has a single sash in centre of gable with pilaster
strip stopped beneath it, square brick porch to right with Tuscan stone
door surround of pilasters, frieze cornice and curved pediment. 6
panel bolection moulded door with rectangular fanlight. To right:-
half octagonal projecting base of former tower of grey-blue bricks
with stone dressings, stone moulded plinth and stone moulded cornice
with sloping stone frieze at first floor, stone pilasters with leaf
and head corbel bases and crocketted pinnacles, carved grotesques of
men, animals and birds at base of parapet. 1 window to each floor of
stone tracery, Perpendicular on ground floor and curvilinear on first
floor. South Elevation:- tower to left with 1 stone traceried window,
that on the ground floor cut to form a C20 door, and red brick C20
plain half octagon bay to right. Central portion symmetrical with two
canted bays in stone with sashes behind stone mullions and transoms.
Each bay 2 storeys high with carved Gothic pierced parapets, and carved
aprons at first floor, finials at comers and grotesques at base of
parapet. Single window and gable above each bay with central 2-light
mullion and transom window between bays. Interior:- room at base of
former tower has fan vaulted carved ceiling with central hanging boss.
Library has moulded plaster ceiling, central open well stair under oval
lantern light. First floor south bedrooms have bolection moulded
panelling. C20 extension to north not included in list.

Listing NGR: SU3951071534

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26599404

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