The Wick Public House
62, WESTERN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292346
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- The Wick Public House
- Statutory Address:
- 62, WESTERN ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292346
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- The Wick Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- 62, WESTERN ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE WICK PUBLIC HOUSE, 63, WESTERN 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:
- 62, WESTERN ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- THE WICK PUBLIC HOUSE, 63, WESTERN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- The City of Brighton and Hove (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 29571 04560
Details
HOVE
TQ2904NE WESTERN ROAD 579-1/19/143 (South side) Nos.62 AND 63 The Wick Public House (63)
GV II
Public house (No.63) and take-away (No.62). Dated 1873, the rebuilding of an earlier Wick Inn on this site, ground floor of No.62 altered late C20. Stucco over brick, vermiculated quoins at junction of facades in angle, roofs concealed behind parapets. Plan: public house occupying corner site at junction of Western Road and Holland Road, take-away abutting to east. Public house: 4 storeys, single narrow bay at junction surmounted by stepped parapet, returned as 3 bays left onto Western Road and 1:1 bays right (Holland Road), sash windows with one vertical glazing bar, pierced parapet with circle motif, bracketed cornice, small round arch-head windows, blocked and painted out, pilasters flanking window openings to second and first floor with moulded strings, ground floor pilasters with composite capitals of volutes, roses and bunches of grapes with original fixed lights, cambered heads to openings and moulded plinth, etched glass. Western Road entrance end bay left, half-glazed door with early C20 stained glass; entrance from Holland Road via single-storey flat-roofed columnar porch with moulded cornice abutting 3-storey canted bay. No.62: 3-storey, one bay semi-detached building, tripartite sash windows with twisted ribbon decoration to mullions of first and second floor windows, enriched entablature, ground floor facade rebuilt late C20 but pilasters with capitals similar to those of No.63 remain beneath the scarlet paint. The original Wick Inn was a thatched building of some antiquity, associated with the earliest cricket ground in Hove which stood on the western side of Holland Road. It is marked on an 1844 map with the name of the publican of the Wick Inn; shown as Jem Nye's Ground. Part of a group with No.82 Western Road (qv) and Palmeira Mansions, Church Road (qv). (Middleton J: A History of Hove: 1976-).
Listing NGR: TQ2957104560
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 365666
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Middleton, J, A History of Hove, (1976)
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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