The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1952. House.
The Old Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- ancient-hall-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 May 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Vicarage, Church Lane, Norham
- OS grid reference
- NT 896 473
- Coordinates
- 55.7198, -2.16689
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Vicarage is a house that was formerly the vicarage, rebuilt in 1800 for Reverend Atkins and enlarged in 1830 for Reverend Darnell. It is constructed of roughly-coursed sandstone with tooled-and-margined ashlar dressings, featuring a Welsh slate roof and brick chimneys. The building has two storeys and three bays, with raised alternating quoins. The central entrance consists of a two-leaf, half-glazed door with horizontally-set panes in the Scottish style, and there is a 12-pane sash window above the door. The outer bays have shallow two-storey bows with tripartite windows; the center lights are broad 12-pane sashes, while the outer lights are very narrow 8-pane sashes. A moulded eaves cornice follows the contours of the bows, and the roof is hipped with 20th-century ridge stacks.
The right return has four bays with 12-pane sashes. At the rear, there is a service wing and a corniced porch featuring a two-leaf, flush-panel door with a margined overlight.
Inside, the property includes six-panel doors, panelled reveals, and shutters, along with original fireplaces, one of which has gesso decoration.
Local climate
The Old Vicarage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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