Wickham,
Hampshire
Click on photos to enlarge.
Notes in italics from Hampshire and the Isle of Wight by Nikolaus Pevsner
and David Lloyd (1967)
Yale University Press, New Haven and London. |
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Wickham is the finest village
in Hampshire ... It is built round a great rectangular 'square' broken
only by an island block of buildings at its N end ... (Pity
about the obtrusive modern eyesore of a mass of parked cars.) ...
The whole range, almost as far as the island block, is of two storeys,
humble in pretension, with many shopfronts and upper storeys anything from
Georgian to C20 in date.
The village was the birthplace of William of Wykeham in 1324. |
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On the west range of the square
... two houses form a semi-detached pair of Early Georgian urban
character, in grey and red brick, with segment-headed windows and
string courses, and fine doorcases.
Eastwood House (middle picture), the last
house on the W of the square ... is a charming composition of two storeys,
in grey and red brick, with a single canted bay on the upper storey,
resting on four free-standing piers.
The east range (last picture) is ended
northwards by two Georgian houses which more than any other individual
buildings help to make the townscape of Wickham so memorable: the first is
of three storeys, Early Georgian, of moderate urban scale; the second is
also of three storeys, but to an altogether larger scale. Both are in
local grey and red brick. The smaller house has a massive doorcase with
segmental pediment, large entablature, and fluted Tuscan columns; the
larger house has a simpler doorcase with broken pediment. |
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On Bridge Street ... the
most intriguing house in Wickham, Queen Lodge. It is of brick and must
date from the later C17. Formerly five bays, the middle bay with giant
brick pilasters ending in Ionic capitals and supporting an entablature,
all in brickwork and rising nearly to the top. Within this frame there is
a small pediment to the main door of the house, also in brick. All the
rest of the facade has been altered; the windows had raised brick
surrounds with scrolly ears. ... |
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From Hampshire
Treasures: C.18, Buddens Farm, Mill Lane. Timber-framed with red brick
infilling in north wall. Refronted with red brick and grey headers in
alternate course. Half-hipped tiled roof. Main structure probably older. |
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Rooksbury. 1835 by C.H. Tatham
in an extensive park; now a girls' school. Square stuccoed two-storey
block with big-scale details. Wide plain pilasters at the angles and
intermediately, widely spaced windows with simple surrounds, those of the
lower storey taller and with moulded hoods. Bold segmental bay in the
centre of the SE front, rising the whole height of the building with
triple windows on each floor; thin but strongly projecting cornice, boldly
moulded with a slight frieze. Grand tetrastyle Ionic portico, with cornice
and pediment similarly detailed, boldly projecting from the SW facade,
with tall, hooded, square-headed doorway underneath. ... |
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