Wicks Manor Farmhouse

Wicks Manor Farmhouse is a house dating from the early 17th century, with an extension added in the 18th century. It is timber framed, plastered, and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The house has five bays facing southwest, with a central stack that creates a lobby entrance. To the rear of the left side is an early 18th-century service wing, which has an end stack. There is also a single-storey extension on the rear right side, featuring a catslide roof, and a 20th-century flat-roofed two-storey extension situated between the two.

The building has two storeys and attics. On the ground floor, there are two early 19th-century sash windows with 16 lights each. The first floor contains two early 19th-century sashes with 20 lights and one with 16 lights. The central entrance features a half-glazed door with a simple moulded architrave. The eaves have sprockets, and the stack has an ovolo-moulded cornice with rebuilt grouped diagonal shafts. On the left return, the ground floor has two early 19th-century sashes with 20 lights and one with 16 lights, while the first floor has one 16-light sash and two more in gabled dormers. There is a 20th-century sash window in the attic gable.

The service wing is a single storey with attics and features a gambrel roof. The main house has jowled posts and a clasped purlin roof. Inside, the left ground floor room has chamfered bridging beams with lamb's tongue and roll stops, with the soffit of the main beam cut back and exposed plain joists. It also contains a 20th-century grate. The right ground floor room has boxed beams, with joists plastered to the soffits, and an early 19th-century pine moulded fire surround. The service wing has a chamfered transverse beam with lamb's tongue stops. The farmhouse is set on a moated site. Its manorial history is documented in P. Morant's "The History and Antiquities of Essex," published in 1768, where it is referred to as Wykes; the manor was owned by the Sammes family from 1608, who likely built the current house.