Wickham House is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1985. Rectory, house. 11 related planning applications.
Wickham House
- WRENN ID
- solemn-chancel-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1985
- Type
- Rectory, house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wickham House is an early 19th-century rectory, now a house, with 20th-century alterations and additions. It is constructed of brick with stone dressings and has a plain tiled roof. The house is rectangular with a hipped roof and cross-gables to the west and south. It has three storeys, a stone moulded cornice, and a string at the first floor, featuring carved stone ornaments of animals and flowers. Further stone moulded strings are present at the second floor and base of the parapet, decorated with carved animals, grotesque figures, flowers, and leaves. The parapets and gable parapets have moulded stone capping, with carved stone figures of a devil, a cross-legged man, and an angel serving as corbels below stone finials on the gables. Plain, rebuilt stacks are also present.
The west elevation features a 20th-century wing to the left. The central three bays are delineated by pilaster strips, the left two of which sit beneath a gable. Tall sashes are set behind stone mullions and transoms, and the second floor has a single sash in the centre of the gable, with a pilaster strip stopping beneath it. A square brick porch with a Tuscan stone door surround, a frieze cornice, and a curved pediment is on the right. A six-panel bolection moulded door has a rectangular fanlight. To the right is a half-octagonal projecting base of a former tower, constructed of grey-blue bricks with stone dressings. This tower features a stone moulded plinth, a stone moulded cornice with a sloping stone frieze at the first floor, stone pilasters with leaf and head corbel bases, crocketted pinnacles, and carved grotesques of men, animals, and birds at the base of the parapet. There is one window to each floor of stone tracery; the ground floor window is Perpendicular, and the first floor window is curvilinear.
The south elevation has the tower to the left, with one stone traceried window (the ground floor window has been altered to form a 20th-century door). To the right is a red brick, plain, half-octagonal bay of 20th-century construction. The central portion of the elevation is symmetrical, with two canted bays in stone, incorporating sashes behind stone mullions and transoms. Each bay is two storeys high and has carved Gothic pierced parapets, carved aprons at the first floor, finials at the corners, and grotesques at the base of the parapet. A single window and gable are above each bay, with a central two-light mullion and transom window between the bays.
The interior of the former tower's base has a fan vaulted carved ceiling with a central hanging boss. The library features a moulded plaster ceiling and a central open well stair beneath an oval lantern light. The south bedrooms on the first floor have bolection moulded panelling. A 20th-century extension to the north is not included in the listing.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 11 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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