Wick Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. A {} House.
Wick Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- standing-vault-raven
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- House
- Period
- {}
- Address
- Wick Farmhouse, Wick Road, Layer Marney
- OS grid reference
- TL 930 174
- Coordinates
- 51.82262, 0.80032
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wick Farmhouse is a late 16th-century house that incorporates remains of a 15th-century open hall. It features a timber-framed and plastered rectangular plan with three bays and a chimney bay, topped by a gabled red plain tile roof. The building has two storeys and a three-window range of late 18th-century vertical sliding double-hung tri-partite sashes. The entrance boasts a simple pediment doorcase with a modern part-glazed door. A central chimney stack from the mid-16th century has diagonal pilaster strips, four shafts, and a square base with a moulded capping, while an early 17th-century end chimney stack is also present. At the rear, there are two gabled wings.
Internally, little of the 15th-century structure remains, apart from some main frame members and "great bricks" in the tile base of the central stack. Part of the original cross wing survives, featuring heavy floor joists. The 16th-century detailing is extensive, including stop-chamfered floor joists. There are two fireplaces; one has a timber mantel beam, and the other features a three-centred brick arch. The building includes jowled storey posts and some soot-blackened rafters that have been reused in the roof. Late 18th-century panelling, doors, and ironmongery of good quality are also present.
Local climate
Wick Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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