Wicken Hall

Wicken Hall is a house dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century, with a west gable end wall likely remaining from an earlier building on the site. In around 1760, the facade was remodeled and the gable ends were partly rebuilt. The structure is timber-framed and plaster rendered on a clunch sill. The west gable end features narrow red brick, partly in English bond, set on a high clunch sill with one corner block showing a masonry joint. The upper courses of this wall were rebuilt in yellow gault brick around 1760. The roof is steeply pitched and plain tiled, with gable end parapets from 1760 resting on kneelers.

The two main chimney stacks, dating from the late 16th or early 17th century, have been rebuilt. The original house is in an L-plan with a stair turret in the angle, and it has two storeys plus an attic, featuring one gabled dormer. There is a range of three hung sash windows, each with twelve panes, and two similar windows with sixteen panes on either side of a pedimented doorway from around 1760. This doorway has a doorcase with fluted pilasters and a Doric frieze, topped by a semi-circular headed fanlight with radial and swagged glazing bars above a panelled door.

Inside, there is a large inglenook fireplace in the former hall and another in the rear service wing. A ground floor room contains a late 16th or early 17th century fireplace made of clunch, featuring a wave-moulded four-centred arch with rosette and foliate decoration in the spandrels, and stop-chamfered jambs on a high base. Two smaller and plainer clunch fireplaces are visible on the first floor, and a fourth fireplace is now sealed. The roof structure is of clasped side purlin construction, with the principals linked by collars and long, straight wall bracing.