Wickham House
WICKHAM HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1312940
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Wickham House
- Statutory Address:
- WICKHAM HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1312940
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Wickham House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WICKHAM HOUSE
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:
- WICKHAM HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Welford
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 39510 71534
Details
SU 37 SE WELFORD WICKHAM
11/4 Wickham House
II
Rectory, now house. Early C19 with C20 alterations and additions. Brick with stone dressings and plain tiled roof. Rectangular plan with hipped roof and cross-gables to west and south. 3 storeys, stone moulded cornice and string at first floor with carved stone animal and flower ornaments. Stone moulded strings to second floor and base of parapet with carved animal, grotesque, flower and leaf oranments. Parapet and gable parapets with moulded stone capping, carved stone figures of a devil, a cross-legged man and an angel as corbels below stone finials on gables. Plain. rebuilt stacks. West Elevation:- to left:- C20 wing. To centre:- 3 bays delineated by pilaster strips, the left two beneath gable. Tall sashes behind stone mullions and transoms, 2nd floor has a single sash in centre of gable with pilaster strip stopped beneath it, square brick porch to right with Tuscan stone door surround of pilasters, frieze cornice and curved pediment. 6 panel bolection moulded door with rectangular fanlight. To right:- half octagonal projecting base of former tower of grey-blue bricks with stone dressings, stone moulded plinth and stone moulded cornice with sloping stone frieze at first floor, stone pilasters with leaf and head corbel bases and crocketted pinnacles, carved grotesques of men, animals and birds at base of parapet. 1 window to each floor of stone tracery, Perpendicular on ground floor and curvilinear on first floor. South Elevation:- tower to left with 1 stone traceried window, that on the ground floor cut to form a C20 door, and red brick C20 plain half octagon bay to right. Central portion symmetrical with two canted bays in stone with sashes behind stone mullions and transoms. Each bay 2 storeys high with carved Gothic pierced parapets, and carved aprons at first floor, finials at comers and grotesques at base of parapet. Single window and gable above each bay with central 2-light mullion and transom window between bays. Interior:- room at base of former tower has fan vaulted carved ceiling with central hanging boss. Library has moulded plaster ceiling, central open well stair under oval lantern light. First floor south bedrooms have bolection moulded panelling. C20 extension to north not included in list.
Listing NGR: SU3951071534
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 39797
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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