Wicken Country Hotel

Wicken Country Hotel, formerly known as The Rectory, is a hotel that was built in 1703 and has undergone late 19th and 20th-century alterations and additions. The building is constructed of coursed square limestone with ironstone dressings and features plain-tile roofs and brick ridge stacks. It is two storeys tall with an attic and has a seven-window range. The original layout was likely U-shaped.

The central entrance consists of a panelled, part-glazed door framed by a moulded eared stone surround, a blank-panelled keyblock, and broken segmental pediments that end in small volutes. The ground floor has 18-pane sash windows, while the first floor features 24-pane sashes. The ground floor windows have moulded stone surrounds and keyblocks, while the first-floor windows have similar surrounds and broken segmental pediments with volutes, except for the central first-floor window, which has scrolled double curves. The two end bays project slightly and have stone-coped gables with kneelers, and the attic features 2-light casement windows with moulded stone surrounds and keyblocks.

Additional architectural details include a chamfered plinth, flat-faced stone mullion cellar windows located to the right of centre, ironstone quoins, a storey band at first-floor level, storey bands at the bases of the gables, and hollow-chamfered stone eaves at the centre, topped by a central gabled dormer. A late 19th or early 20th-century two-storey bay window is present on the left side. The right side elevation, partially obscured by a single-storey lean-to extension, has five bays with sash windows on both floors featuring flat-arched heads, along with two hipped dormers flanking a central gabled dormer. The rear of the building includes full-height extensions from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Inside, there is a fine open-well staircase leading from the ground to the first floor, featuring turned balusters, as well as an open-well back stair with simpler turned balusters. The study contains 17th-century panelling, and there is a stone cellar. The Rectory was constructed by Dr. William Trimnal shortly after his induction in 1702, using materials from the demolished Spencer mansion.