Wyckham Farm Cottage Wyckham Farmhouse

Wyckham Farmhouse and Wyckham Farm Cottage comprise a former farmhouse and farm cottage, located in Steyning. The east part, Wyckham Farm Cottage, and part of Wyckham Farmhouse, represents a late Mediaeval open hall-house of two bays. It was altered and lengthened in the early 17th century, with two parallel ranges added to the west in the 18th century and around 1800. Much of the window glazing is 20th century.

The east part of Wyckham Farm Cottage is timber-framed and clad in red brick, with some grey headers in English bond. The end bay displays English Garden Wall bond with a flint patch below. It has a Horsham stone slab roof with gablets, and a brick chimneystack. The building is two storeys high, with a four-bay frontage on the east and a three-bay frontage on the west. The windows are 20th-century casements. An 18th-century outshot with a 20th-century dormer is located at the extreme east. A plinth runs along the base of the building. An early to mid 19th-century porch has been converted to a window bay. To the west are two parallel ranges of red brick in Flemish bond, also with Horsham stone slab roofs, 20th-century windows, and a 20th-century porch.

Wyckham Farm Cottage features a lounge of two bays with a wide wooden bressumer marked with crane symbols on the stone open fireplace, which includes a bread oven with a cambered entrance. Interior features include chamfered spine beams and square-section floor joists. The kitchen retains an early 19th-century basket-grate, copper, and bread oven. The first floor showcases exposed tie beams, jowled posts and chamfered beams with lamb’s tongue stops. The attic, which was not accessible at the time of survey, is reported to contain two crownposts and smoke-blackened timbers. Wyckham Farmhouse contains one bay of timber-framed house on the first floor and in the basement. The 18th-century wings have been gutted in the 20th century.

Historical records indicate that in 1565, John Culpeper died holding a third of the manor of Little Wyckham in Steyning, held of Bramber manor. In 1571, his son Thomas sold it in exchange for an annuity of four pounds. The buildings are shown on an estate map from 1752.

The east half of the farmhouse dates to the 17th century, constructed of red brick and grey headers. It originally had horizontally-sliding sash windows. The west half, constructed in the 19th century, features two parallel ranges of red brick and modern windows, all beneath a Horsham slab roof. Two 19th-century gabled porches are also present.