Wickham House

SU 37 SE WELFORD WICKHAM

11/4 Wickham House

II

Rectory, now house. Early C19 with C20 alterations and additions. Brick with stone dressings and plain tiled roof. Rectangular plan with hipped roof and cross-gables to west and south. 3 storeys, stone moulded cornice and string at first floor with carved stone animal and flower ornaments. Stone moulded strings to second floor and base of parapet with carved animal, grotesque, flower and leaf oranments. Parapet and gable parapets with moulded stone capping, carved stone figures of a devil, a cross-legged man and an angel as corbels below stone finials on gables. Plain. rebuilt stacks. West Elevation:- to left:- C20 wing. To centre:- 3 bays delineated by pilaster strips, the left two beneath gable. Tall sashes behind stone mullions and transoms, 2nd floor has a single sash in centre of gable with pilaster strip stopped beneath it, square brick porch to right with Tuscan stone door surround of pilasters, frieze cornice and curved pediment. 6 panel bolection moulded door with rectangular fanlight. To right:- half octagonal projecting base of former tower of grey-blue bricks with stone dressings, stone moulded plinth and stone moulded cornice with sloping stone frieze at first floor, stone pilasters with leaf and head corbel bases and crocketted pinnacles, carved grotesques of men, animals and birds at base of parapet. 1 window to each floor of stone tracery, Perpendicular on ground floor and curvilinear on first floor. South Elevation:- tower to left with 1 stone traceried window, that on the ground floor cut to form a C20 door, and red brick C20 plain half octagon bay to right. Central portion symmetrical with two canted bays in stone with sashes behind stone mullions and transoms. Each bay 2 storeys high with carved Gothic pierced parapets, and carved aprons at first floor, finials at comers and grotesques at base of parapet. Single window and gable above each bay with central 2-light mullion and transom window between bays. Interior:- room at base of former tower has fan vaulted carved ceiling with central hanging boss. Library has moulded plaster ceiling, central open well stair under oval lantern light. First floor south bedrooms have bolection moulded panelling. C20 extension to north not included in list.

Listing NGR: SU3951071534