Wicks Manor Farmhouse

TOLLESHUNT MAJOR WITHAM ROAD TL 81 SE (north-east side) 2/114 Wicks Manor Farmhouse - II

House. Early C17, extended in C18. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 5 bays facing SW, with central stack forming a lobby-entrance. Early C18 service wing to rear of left side, with end stack. Single-storey extension to rear of right side, with catslide roof. C20 flat-roofed 2-storey extension between them. 2 storeys and attics. Ground floor, 2 early C19 sashes of 16 lights. First floor, 2 early C19 sashes of 20 lights and one of 16 lights. Central half-glazed door with simple moulded architrave. Sprockets below eaves. Stack has ovolo-moulded cornice, and rebuilt grouped diagonal shafts. Left return has on the ground floor 2 early C19 sashes of 20 lights and one of 16 lights, and on the first floor one of 16 lights and 2 more in gabled dormers. C20 sash in attic gable. Service wing is of one storey with attics, with gambrel roof. The main house has jowled posts and a clasped purlin roof. The left ground floor room has chamfered bridging beams with lamb's tongue and roll stops, the soffit of the main beam cut back, exposed plain joists of vertical section, and a C20 grate. The right ground floor room has boxed beams, joists plastered to the soffits, and an early C19 pine moulded fire surround. The service wing has a chamfered transverse beam with lamb's tongue stops. Moated site. The manorial history is in P. Morant, The History and Antiquities of Essex, 1768, I, 391-2, under the name Wykes; the manor was in the Sammes family from 1608, and they must have built the present house.

Listing NGR: TL8977312195