Wick Manor

Wick Manor is a house with origins in the 17th century, substantially refronted in the mid-18th century and subsequently altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. It was formerly larger, extending further west, and now has a rear wing creating an L-shaped layout. The house is built of rubble, rendered, with slate roofs, raised coped verges, and stone gable stacks. The front elevation has two storeys and three windows, all paired sash windows within eared architraves; the first floor’s central window is a larger single sash. A central Doric porch with a pediment and a half-glazed door is present. Quoin strips, a cornice, a parapet, and coping adorn the exterior, along with 20th-century urns on either side.

Attached to the right is a single-story block with a high parapet wall in rubble with stone coping, featuring a 20th-century sash window in a plain surround. A lower curtain wall to the right has a small, blocked window. On the right return is a single-story 20th-century addition, containing a French window and a door. Two small 20th-century attic lights are in the main house. The left return features a two-story rear wing with paired sashes at ground floor matching those on the front, and a Venetian window at first floor, with 9 panes in the central light, splayed glazing bars, and 4 panes to each side.

The rear of the house includes a single-story, flat-roofed 20th-century addition, an oval window, a two-story, flat-roofed addition in the angle of the L-plan, and a two-light gabled dormer. A single-story block with a pitched roof and a 20th-century window is also present at the rear of the rear wing.

Inside, the central entrance hall has a stone flagged floor and a boxed beam to the left. An open-well staircase leads to the rear right, featuring a banded mahogany wreathed handrail, cylindrical newels, and plain stick balusters. A panelled and glazed door with sidelights occupies the space where a former external wall stood. A room to the right includes an Adam-style fireplace with yellow and white marble; the cornice has three rows of mouldings. An architrave to a former door, now containing a 20th-century sash window, and reeded architraves to doors are also present, along with shutters to the windows. The kitchen in the rear wing has a fireplace with a chamfered pointed segmental arch and an oven recess. The ground floor rooms’ ceilings were raised, making the first floor rooms higher than the central landing. The front attic to the left reveals two bays of roof structure, including principal rafters, a single row of purlins, a diagonal ridge purlin and plated yoke, and a heavy chamfered purlin to the rear slope. A plank and batten door with strap hinges is also present.