No 2 Upper House Cottages

No. 2 Upper House Cottages is a house located on Winchester Road in Wickham, dating from the early 17th century. It has been partly rebuilt in the late 17th century and extended in the 18th century, with some alterations made in the 20th century. The building is timber-framed with brick and flint infilling, featuring a clay plain tile roof that has half-hipped and gabled ends. A brick axial stack, with its top courses rebuilt in the 19th century, is present.

The house has a two-room plan, with both rooms heated by back-to-back fireplaces in a central axial stack, creating a lobby entrance at the front. The right-hand room served as the parlour, while the left room was a service area, with its chamber above jettied out at the left end. An outshut was added at the back in the 18th century, and a single-storey rear extension was added in the late 20th century.

The exterior features one storey and an attic, with an asymmetrical two-window southwest front primarily made of English bond brick. The left bay has a flint and brick plinth with moulded brick weathering, and there are 20th-century casements and raking attic dormers that break the eaves. The central doorway is blocked, while a later doorway on the left has a 20th-century plank door with a gabled canopy. The left-hand return showcases a jettied half-hipped gable with brick and flint infilling, largely replaced exposed joists, and is underbuilt in brick with flat buttresses on a flint and brick plinth with moulded brick weathering. At the rear, the roof extends down to low eaves of the brick outshut, with a late 20th-century single-storey flat roof addition on the left.

Inside, the left room features a chamfered cross-beam without stops, while the right room has an ovolo-moulded axial beam with arrow-head stops. Both rooms contain 20th-century chimneypieces. There are winder stairs leading to the ceiled attic chambers, where common-rafter couples are visible in the roof space. The northwest gable-end displays an exposed frame with jowled storey-posts and a tie-beam and collar truss. This building is a good example of a small early 17th-century timber-framed house, with later brick rebuilding in the late 17th century.