Wickham Farmhouse - a photo on Flickriver

Wickham Farmhouse

            2007 original: This farmhouse, which looks as if it was built around 1900, is connected with my Flicker or Palmer families somehow. It is probably in Essex or Hertfordshire.

At least, the note on the back says it's a farmhouse. To me it's more like a comfortable family home in the vernacular style

2015 update: Now identified as Wickham Farmhouse, 14 College Lane, Hurst Wickham, Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex BN6 9AG, a Grade II listed building.

"Restored C17 or earlier timber-framed building with red brick infilling, largely refaced with red brick and grey headers on ground floor and tile-hung above.
Half-hipped tiled roof. Casement windows. Two storeys and attic. Four windows.
Two modern dormers."

The restoration may have been carried out under the direction of Walter Hindes Godfrey CBE, FSA, FRIBA (1881–1961).

At some point before 1933, Wickham Farmhouse became the home of Henry Graham Dakyns and his wife Winifred (née Pattison):

During the First World War Winifred Dakyns (and to a lesser extent her husband) was involved with the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD), run jointly by the British Red Cross and the order of St John. She worked closely with the director, Katharine Furse, and when Furse left in 1917 following a disagreement over the organization and employment of VAD nurses, Dakyns was one of a number of senior members who also left.

Shortly thereafter, in November 1917, Furse was appointed as the first director of the newly re-created Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) and looked to her former VAD colleagues to form the nucleus of the officer corps. In December Dakyns was appointed one of two assistant directors, working closely with Furse and with her deputy, Edith Crowdy, to draw up the terms and conditions of service for the WRNS. 

(With acknowledgement to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography)

The current owner of the property tells me that Mrs Dakyns is remembered as using real candles on her Christmas tree.

Taken in: United Kingdom / England / Hurstpierpoint (show map)

Taken on: January 1, 1935

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