Whickham House With Attached Outbuildings To East

Whickham House is a house dating to 1692, with later alterations in the 18th and early 19th centuries, and a rear wing dated 1893, although incorporating earlier fabric. Attached outbuildings date from the late 18th or early 19th century. The house is constructed of squared stone with rubble to the rear, cut dressings, and has a Welsh slate roof. It is arranged as two storeys and three bays, in a symmetrical design. The central entrance has a 20th-century glazed door set within an 18th-century stone surround, now within a late-20th-century half-glazed porch. The windows are renewed 12-pane sashes, with the ground floor right window replacing a former doorway; their surrounds feature reused older dressings, including a lintel inscribed "I B 1731", now a jamb of the first-floor right window. The roof is hipped with two stepped-and-corniced ridge stacks and a lateral stack on the left return, all rebuilt in the 20th century. The left return displays a renewed 12-pane sash window on the first floor. The rear has a 12-pane sash stair window, and a 12-pane sash above a 9-pane fixed window on the right, all within chamfered stone surrounds. To the left is the end of the rear wing, with a 6-pane fixed window and an 8-pane sash, a 12-pane sash above, and a hipped roof. Older masonry in the lower part of the wall extends to the left into an adjacent outbuilding, featuring a boarded door and double doors under a segmental arch. The right return of the wing has a half-glazed door with a dated lintel, paired 12-pane sashes, and a single 12-pane sash on the first floor. The interior retains an original rear doorway with a flat-pointed head within a chamfered square frame, which now opens into the wing. The remainder of the interior is said to have been much altered. The south porch is not of particular architectural interest.