The Old Tea House

The Old Tea House is a late 18th-century building located on Wickham High Street. It is L-shaped and likely originated as two separate houses, one facing the Square and the other the High Street. Currently, it functions primarily as a ground-floor café, with part of it serving as a shop.

The exterior features painted brickwork in Flemish bond, with a plinth, a first-floor band, and rubbed flat arches adorned with decorative Coade-style keys. The roof is tiled, with brick dentil eaves on the side facing the Square and coved plaster eaves on the High Street side.

The symmetrical southeast front elevation is two storeys high with an attic and has three windows, two of which are blank. The windows are sashes set in exposed frames. The entrance features a wood Doric doorcase with an open pediment, a dentilled cornice, pilasters, and an arched opening with a small key. Above the entrance is a Gothic fanlight and a four-panelled door that is not in use, all accessed by stone steps.

The southwest elevation is also symmetrical, with two windows on the two-storey structure. The east side has a gable that is two storeys high with an attic and one window, marking the end of the High Street facade. The building contains 18th-century and Victorian sashes, along with a ground-floor shopfront that has a central doorway flanked by panelled pilasters and the remnants of a fanlight.