The Wick Public House

HOVE

TQ2904NE WESTERN ROAD 579-1/19/143 (South side) Nos.62 AND 63 The Wick Public House (63)

GV II

Public house (No.63) and take-away (No.62). Dated 1873, the rebuilding of an earlier Wick Inn on this site, ground floor of No.62 altered late C20. Stucco over brick, vermiculated quoins at junction of facades in angle, roofs concealed behind parapets. Plan: public house occupying corner site at junction of Western Road and Holland Road, take-away abutting to east. Public house: 4 storeys, single narrow bay at junction surmounted by stepped parapet, returned as 3 bays left onto Western Road and 1:1 bays right (Holland Road), sash windows with one vertical glazing bar, pierced parapet with circle motif, bracketed cornice, small round arch-head windows, blocked and painted out, pilasters flanking window openings to second and first floor with moulded strings, ground floor pilasters with composite capitals of volutes, roses and bunches of grapes with original fixed lights, cambered heads to openings and moulded plinth, etched glass. Western Road entrance end bay left, half-glazed door with early C20 stained glass; entrance from Holland Road via single-storey flat-roofed columnar porch with moulded cornice abutting 3-storey canted bay. No.62: 3-storey, one bay semi-detached building, tripartite sash windows with twisted ribbon decoration to mullions of first and second floor windows, enriched entablature, ground floor facade rebuilt late C20 but pilasters with capitals similar to those of No.63 remain beneath the scarlet paint. The original Wick Inn was a thatched building of some antiquity, associated with the earliest cricket ground in Hove which stood on the western side of Holland Road. It is marked on an 1844 map with the name of the publican of the Wick Inn; shown as Jem Nye's Ground. Part of a group with No.82 Western Road (qv) and Palmeira Mansions, Church Road (qv). (Middleton J: A History of Hove: 1976-).

Listing NGR: TQ2957104560