Description

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5186 WICK LANE
(South West Side)
Wick House
(Nos 78 to 84 (even)
SZ 1592 37/36 5.5.52.

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Substantial red brick villa, circa 1800. Main front (No 82) 5 windows wide,
plus 2 to slightly recessed north wing. Bricks of facade are all headers, except
for dark red voussoirs of gauged brick. Glazing bars intact in sash windows.
Doorway with fluted pilasters and pediment, with fielded panels to jambs of recessed
door, which itself has fielded panels (2 now glazed) under rectangular fanlight.
Hipped tiled roof, recessed behind parapet on north wing. North end abuts road
with 2 hipped gables and high chimney, red brick with some grey stretchers, 2
inserted timber entrances (Nos 78 and 80). West side of No 78 has segment-headed
windows (new entrance below), projecting single-storey stable (now garage) has
rounded end. Rear of main house has narrow gable flanked by 2 high brick chimneys.
South gable tile-hung, projecting from it lower 2-storey south wing (No 84):
smaller bricks, probably earlier, but much modernised (eg tile-on-edge lintels,
stringcourse and tympanum over door).

Listing NGR: SZ1553492131

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26402555

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)