Wick Hall and Attached Walls
WICK HALL AND ATTACHED WALLS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1284611
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Wick Hall and Attached Walls
- Statutory Address:
- WICK HALL AND ATTACHED WALLS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1284611
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wick Hall and Attached Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- WICK HALL AND ATTACHED WALLS
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 HALL AND ATTACHED WALLS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Radley
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 51660 97974
Details
RADLEY SU59NW 9/84 Wick Hall and attached walls 09/02/66 (Formerly listed as Wick Hall (old part) and walls of walled garden) GV II* House. c.1720, for Mrs Tomkins: late C19 extensions, by Charles Bell for the Dockar-Drysdales. Coursed limestone rubble with brick quoins and dressings; hipped old tile roof; end stacks of brick to left and stone with gauged brick quoins and cornice to right. Double-depth plan. Early Georgian style. Two storeys and attic; symmetrical 5-window range. C18 two-panelled door with overlight, and very fine plastered shell hood with console-brackets. Gauged brick flat arches and coved cornice over late C19/C20 two-light casements. Similar 5-bay right side wall has original wood-mullioned and transomed cross window above C18 plank door with overlight and tightly-moulded pediment hood: 5-bay left side wall has similar original stair-light window. Extensions to rear of mid 1880's to 1890's by Charles Bell: in "Queen Anne" style, similar to old part of Wick Hall: tall sashes and cross-windows with wrought-iron fittings. Interior: stone-flag floors, panelled doors and shutters. Hall: straight-cut panelling, and dog-leg with landing staircase to rear left which has barley-sugar balusters on closed string, panelled spandrel and dado and ramped handrail. Small panelled room with bolection-moulded overmantle to left. Keyed archway with moulded imposts, entablature and flanking panelled pilaster leads from hall to rear passage with straight-cut panelling and plank door to cellar: fine bolection-moulded panelled room with fireplace to left, and early C18 fireplace with spit racks in kitchen to right. First floor: landing and rear passage have bolection-moulded and straight-cut dado panels. Two panelled rooms to right (originally divided by closet): front room has bolection-moulded architrave and Delft tiles and cast-iron backplate to fireplace. Fine bolection-panelled room to rear left: bolection-moulded fireplace and deeply-moulded cornice in room to rear right. Winder stair to attic has bolection-moulded panels and moulded newel. Rear wing has early C17 Flemish panelling removed from Exeter College Chapel, Oxford: tall panelled dado, 3-bay screen and fireplace are all lavishly carved in Artisan Mannerist style, the latter with musical instruments: another smaller room has early C14 door heads reset in internal porch, and tester and sound board of early C17 pulpit. Subsidiary features: two walls of uncoursed limestone rubble with brick dog-tooth coping run approx. 40m. to left and are linked by low right-angled wall. Map of 1739 in owner possession depicts front of house with cross windows: bought by Dockar-Drysdales in 1850. (Buildings of England: Berkshire, p.197; National Monuments Record - for photographs of early C17 panelling).
Listing NGR: SU5166097974
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 249759
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 197
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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