Wickham House is a Grade II* listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1967. House.

Wickham House

WRENN ID
stony-hall-elm
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Canterbury
Constituency
Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 January 1967
Type
House
Address
Wickham House, the Green, Wickhambreaux
OS grid reference
TR 220 587
Coordinates
51.28495, 1.18347
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wickham House, formerly known as The Old Rectory, was built in 1713 by the Reverend Alexander Young, who served as the Rector of Wickhambreaux from 1712 to 1755. This two-storey building features attics and a basement, constructed from brown brick with red brick dressings. It has a steeply-pitched hipped tiled roof with brick chimneystacks at both the north and south ends. The façade includes two small dormers with wooden pediments, and in the center, there is a brick portion of one window that has been built out, likely at a later date, flanked by pilasters and topped with a pediment. The house has five sash windows with segmental heads and intact glazing bars, along with aprons beneath the windows.

At the top of eight steps, there is an early 19th-century doorcase featuring an iron handrail. This doorcase is set within a moulded architrave surround, complete with a projecting cornice on brackets, a rectangular fanlight, and a door with four moulded panels. Inside, the house contains an 18th-century staircase with two turned balusters on each tread, a drawing room with fine panelling, and an 18th-century fireplace that is not originally from this house, along with other contemporary panelling and marble fireplaces.

Local climate

Wickham House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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