Wick Farmhouse
WICK FARMHOUSE, WICK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1223989
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Wick Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WICK FARMHOUSE, WICK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1223989
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Wick Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WICK FARMHOUSE, WICK ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WICK FARMHOUSE, WICK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Colchester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Layer Marney
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 93085 17484
Details
LAYER MARNEY WICK ROAD l. 5214 Wick Farmhouse TL 91 IN 16/34 II* 2. Late Cl6 house, incorporating remains of C15 open hall. Timber-framed and plastered rectangular plan, 3 bays and chimney bay, with gabled red plain tile roof. Two storeys. Three window range late C18 vertical sliding double hung tri-partite sashes. Simple pediment doorcase with modem part glazed door. ?Mid Cl6 central chimney stack with diagonal pilaster strips, 4 shafts and a square base, with moulded capping. Early Cl7 end chimney stack. Two gabled wings to rear. Internally little of the C15 remains, except some main frame members and some "great bricks" in tile base of the centre stack. Part of original cross wing remains with heavy floor joists. Cl6 detailing in extensive. Stop chamfered floor joists. Two fireplaces one with timber mantel beam and the other with 3 centred brick arch. Jowled storey poets. Some soot blackened rafters re-used in roof. Late C18 panelling, doors and iron-mongery, all of good quality. (RCHM 4).
Listing NGR: TL9308517484
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 419936
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Essex North East, (1922)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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