Listed Building record MDO3862 - Wyke Hall, Gillingham

A house, now divided into ten separate dwellings, with a seventeenth century core, largely rebuilt in 1853 and extended 1913 in a free 'Tudor' style. Rendered and ashlar walls and a tiled roof.

ST 79212671. Wyke Hall of two storeys with attics and rendered walls has a 17th century nucleus, but the greater part is mid-19th century. <2>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1962 (Map). SWX1540.

(ST 79212671) Wyke Hall (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 33 (Monograph). SDO99.

'(58) Wyke Hall (79212671), house, nearly 1 m. W. of (1), is of two storeys with attics and has rendered walls and tiled roofs. The building has a 17th-century nucleus, but the greater part is of the mid-19th century and probably is dated by a rainwater head of 1853.

The E. front of the original building has four irregularly spaced bays with windows of two, three and four square-headed lights in chamfered stone surrounds with labels. Between the two southern bays is the main doorway, with a late 19th-century stone porch with an embattled parapet and corner pinncacles; above the porch is a stone carved with the arms of Farquhar, the family which acquired the house early in the 19th century. The 17th-century E. front is extended to N. and S. with additions, of the 19th century and later, incorporating reset 17th-century windows. The 19th-century S. front has mullioned and transomed windows with cinquefoil-headed lights. The N. and W. fronts have no notable features.

Inside, the drawing-room has a 19th-century moulded plaster ceiling in the style of the early 17th-century, with the arms of Farquhar; the late 17th-century stone fireplace surround is decorated with cable mouldings. The dining-room has reset and restored 17th-century panelling with a carved frieze. The windows of the 19th-century hall have fragments of 17th-century heraldic glass, mainly Flemish or German; one cartouche with arms is dated 1651. Several first-floor rooms have 18th-century pine panelling and one room has 17th-century oak panelling with fluted Ionic pilasters; the chimneypiece in this room is carved with caryatid figures and strapwork, extensively restored.

A late 18th or early 19th-century Summerhouse in the garden has walls of ashlar and brick, and a tiled roof. The S. front is of three bays defined by Doric pilasters; at the centre is a round-headed doorway with a small pediment; the side bays have round-headed windows. A date-stone loose in the garden bears the initials T.F., perhaps for Thomas Freke (Hutchins III, 626), and the date 171..'

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 202330 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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