Wick Farmhouse

DOWNTON WICK LANE SU 12 SE (north side) 4/140 Wick Farmhouse GV II

Farmhouse. Early C18. Flemish bond brick, tiled roof, brick stacks. 2-span roof. 2-storey, 5-window. Central 6-panelled door with timber-framed canopy, blind windows either side and C20 metal casements to left and right. 3-brick plat band to first floor; two 3-light and one 2-light casement and two blind windows to first floor. Two hipped dormers to roof. Gable-end brick stacks, external stack on right return has limestone plinth and tumbling-in of offsets, latticed leaded casement to left, to right is 6- panelled door and casement to first floor. Left return has one blocked window and some limestone and flint chequers to base of wall, C20 window to ground floor and 2-light casement to first floor. Rear has C20 windows to ground floor and two 2-light leaded casements to first floor. Single-storey extension attached to right. Unusual datestones; on west wall 'lst June 1732', on north wall 'WC Esq/June 16th 1772'. Interior has chamfered lintel to open fireplace with bread ovens, late C18 eared fireplace to first floor with fluted frieze and mid- Victorian marble fireplace in west room. Stairs with turned balusters. (Unpublished records of RCHM (England), Salisbury).

Listing NGR: SU1643521623