Wick Hill House Hotel

Wick Hill House Hotel is a large house, now operating as a hotel, dating primarily to the late 19th century, although it incorporates elements of an earlier 18th-century building. The construction is of orange coursed squared and dressed limestone, with cream-coloured limestone quoins. The roof is covered in stone slates and artificial stone slates, with stacks built from the same stone as the main body of the building.

The main facade features a projecting gable to the right and a two-storey porch set off-centre to the left. The windows are predominantly four-pane and two-pane sashes with horns, alongside a few 2-light casements. A prominent feature is the tripartite sash window on the first floor of the projecting gable, framed by a segmental surround with a keystone and triangular pediment supported on moulded brackets above the central sash. The porch has two round-headed arched entrances flanked by piers with engaged columns and banded decoration. An entablature runs between the ground and first floors. A three-light stone-mullioned casement with a transom is found on the first floor. A pierced parapet tops the facade, and a double 20th-century part-glazed door with fielded panels is recessed within the porch.

The left-hand return includes a projecting gable with a single-storey rectangular bay to the right, and a two-storey bow window off-centre to the left. Ground-floor windows are largely 8-pane casements/doors with transoms, set within narrow, double-chamfered surrounds with architraves. Two windows on the ground floor of the left-hand gable were inserted in the 20th century. The bow window features a tripartite sash with horns and a triangular pediment on moulded brackets over the central window. Six 6-pane sashes with horns and moulded architraves are located to the left, while three 10-pane glazed doors, each with a transom and small balconies with stone standings and low curved cast iron railings, are situated on the first floor of the bow window. A large coat of arms, featuring a triangular pediment, three chalices, and the motto 'COMME JE TROUVE', is displayed on the left-hand gable at first-floor level. A narrow string course runs between the floors, and a band and moulded eaves cornice separates the two gables. The fenestration of the left-hand return consists of 12 and 9-pane sashes with horns.

The roof features stepped coped gables with 'gabled' kneelers, and lateral axial and gable-end stacks with moulded cappings. Inside, the room containing the bow window boasts a fine Adam-style plastered ceiling, a white marble fireplace, and an alcove, along with a 19th-century staircase. The original house was built in the early 18th century and was extended with a south wing before 1775. Subsequent extensive alterations and enlargements occurred after 1875. In 1958, fire gutted the west wing, the oldest part of the house.