Wick Farmhouse

Wick Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the mid-15th century, with alterations made in the 17th and 20th centuries. It is timber framed with plaster infilling, and the rear wing is timber framed but faced with red brick. The roof is covered with plain tiles. The building is designed in the Wealden style, featuring two hall bays of roughly equal length, with the left bay subdivided and a storeyed bay at the left end. There was a non-extant storeyed bay to the right. The layout was converted to a lobby entry plan in the 17th century. The farmhouse has two storeys and a garret, with close studding. The left end bay jetties to the front, left gable end, and rear, supported by moulded dragon posts, while the left gable end jetty is underbuilt. The right end bay was formerly jettied at least to the front and rear. The front and rear feature arch-braced flying wall-plates, although the rear braces are missing. There is a solid bracket supporting the central tie-beam. The roof is hipped to the left, with a gablet, and half-hipped to the right. A multiple brick ridge stack is located at the left end of the hall, and there is a projecting brick stack at the right gable end. The fenestration is irregular, comprising four windows: a three-light casement at the left end bay, a three-light ovolo-moulded mullioned window at the left hall bay with a two-light casement adjoining, and a five-light casement at the right hall bay. A boarded door is set within durns to the left end of the hall, topped by a short moulded, brattished beam. The 17th-century two-storey rear wing to the right features a central multiple brick ridge stack.

Inside, there is a moulded central crown post on a cambered, moulded tie-beam made of heavy scantling, with moulded principal posts. Ashlar pieces are present, along with a chamfered collar-purlin and ogee end-of-hall braces. The front and rear have close-studded infilling between the inner wall-plate and a rail just below. The left end-of-hall beam is moulded and brattished, and there is a four-centred arched rear doorway. A 17th-century staircase is located behind the stack, featuring a polygonal finial and billet ornamentation on the small landing newel post.