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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 84 SW 24
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:Wick Farmhouse, Biddenden Road, Headcorn

Summary

Wick Farmhouse : listed building Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1433 to 1999


Grid Reference:TQ 8461 4371
Map Sheet:TQ84SW
Parish:HEADCORN, MAIDSTONE, KENT

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1433 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1060869: WICK FARMHOUSE

Full description

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Description from record TQ 84 SW 105:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
HEADCORN BIDDENDEN ROAD TQ 84 SW (East side)
7/36 Wick Farmhouse
26.4.68 II
Farmhouse. Mid C15, with C17 and C20 alterations. Timber framed with plaster infilling. Rear wing timber framed, faced with red brick. Plain tile roof. Wealden, with two roughly equal-length hall bays, (that to left subdivided) and storeyed bay to left end. Non-extant storeyed bay to right. Converted to lobby entry plan in C17. 2 storeys and garret. Close studded. Left end bay jettied to front, left gable end, and rear, returning on moulded dragon posts. Left gable end jetty underbuilt. Right end bay formerly jettied at least to front and rear. Arch-braced flying wall-plates to front and rear [rear braces missing). Solid bracket to central tie-beam. Roof hipped to left, with gablet, and half-hipped to right. Multiple brick ridge stack to left end of hall. Projecting brick stack to right gable end. Irregular fenestration of 4 windows; one 3-light casement to left end bay, one 3-light ovolo-moulded mullioned window to left hall bay, with 2-light casement adjoining, and one 5-light casement to right hall bay. Boarded door within durns to left end of hall with short moulded, brattished beam over. C17 two-storey rear wing to right with central multiple brick ridge stack. Interior: moulded central crown post on cambered, moulded tie-beam of heavy scantling, with moulded principal posts. Ashlar-pieces. Chamfered collar-purlin. Ogee end-of-hall braces. Close-studded infilling to front and rear, between inner wall-plate and rail just below. Moulded and brattished left end-of-hall beam. 4-centred arched rear doorway. C17 staircase behind stack with polygonal finial and billet ornamentation to small landing newel post.
Listing NGR: TQ8461743715 (1)

House with medieval parts consisting of a formerly open 2-bay hall and lower end of double Wealden house. The lower end was formerly jettied at end as well as the front and back. The former upper end may have been contemporary with the hall and would have completed the double Wealden form. In the 17th century a wing was added behind the hall. (2)

Historic England archive material: BF040210 WICK FARMHOUSE, HEADCORN File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued. Copyright, date, and quantity information for this record may be incomplete or inaccurate. RCH01/048/01/409 Labelled sheet of drawings of Wick Farm, Headcorn, with a ground-floor plan, a crown-post elevation, a sketch section, and details of the scarf joint in the collar purlin, and the moulding on the main post and arch brace


<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T., 1994, A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent (Monograph). SKE8010.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
<2>Monograph: Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T.. 1994. A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent.