The Wick Public House

The Wick Public House, located at 63 Western Road, is a public house dating from 1873, built on the site of an earlier establishment known as the Wick Inn. The ground floor of the adjacent take-away at No.62 was altered in the late 20th century. The building features stucco over brick with vermiculated quoins at the corners and roofs that are concealed behind parapets.

The public house occupies a corner site at the junction of Western Road and Holland Road. It is four storeys tall with a narrow bay at the junction topped by a stepped parapet. The facade along Western Road consists of three bays, while the side facing Holland Road has one bay. The windows are sash style with one vertical glazing bar, and there is a pierced parapet with a circular motif, along with a bracketed cornice. The building has small round arch-head windows that are blocked and painted out, and pilasters flank the window openings on the second and first floors, featuring moulded strings. The ground floor pilasters have composite capitals adorned with volutes, roses, and bunches of grapes, and the original fixed lights have cambered heads. The entrance on Western Road has a half-glazed door with early 20th-century stained glass, while the entrance from Holland Road is accessed through a single-storey flat-roofed porch with a moulded cornice that abuts a three-storey canted bay.

No.62 is a three-storey, one-bay semi-detached building with tripartite sash windows that have twisted ribbon decoration on the mullions of the first and second floors. It features an enriched entablature, although the ground floor facade was rebuilt in the late 20th century. The pilasters with capitals similar to those of No.63 remain beneath the scarlet paint.

The original Wick Inn was a thatched building of considerable age, associated with the earliest cricket ground in Hove, which was located on the western side of Holland Road. This historic inn is marked on an 1844 map and was known as Jem Nye's Ground. The Wick Public House is part of a group with No.82 Western Road and Palmeira Mansions on Church Road.