The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1986. Vicarage. 1 related planning application.
The Old Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- pale-garret-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1986
- Type
- Vicarage
- Address
- The Old Vicarage, B6276, Lunedale
- OS grid reference
- NY 956 240
- Coordinates
- 54.61171, -2.06931
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Vicarage is a house that was originally built as a vicarage in 1845, with a wing added around 1880 and further modifications in the early 20th century. The building is constructed from dressed sandstone and features graduated slate roofs and stone chimney stacks. The main block has an attached wing on the left side.
The main block is two storeys high and has a three-by-three bay layout. It has a low plinth and flush quoins. The central entrance consists of a six-panel door topped by a radial fanlight, all set within a round-arched stone surround that includes pilasters and a raised keystone. Above the door is a blank bay, and there are replaced 12-pane sash windows on either side, which have flush lintels and projecting chamfered sills. The roof is hipped, and there is a central corniced ridge stack with a mid band.
The left wing is set back and is also two storeys, featuring a one-bay design with a tripartite sash window on the ground floor and two replaced 12-pane sashes above. This wing also has a hipped roof.
On the right side of the main block, there is a three-bay return with a central elongated vertically-sliding window flanked by later canted bay windows made of stone. Above, there are three replaced 12-pane sashes.
The early 20th-century additions at the rear of the wing are not considered to be of special interest.
Local climate
The Old Vicarage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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