The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1967. House.

The Old Vicarage

WRENN ID
drifting-lancet-yarrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Constituency
Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 June 1967
Type
House
Address
The Old Vicarage, Saighton Lane, Aldford and Saighton
OS grid reference
SJ 443 619
Coordinates
53.15218, -2.83324
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Vicarage is a house from the early 18th century that has been altered over time. It is built of red-brown brick in an irregular bond and features a grey slate roof with brick gable chimneys. The building stands three storeys tall. The front façade includes brick bands at the first and second floors, near-flush small-pane sash windows, and a six-panel door with a rectangular small-pane fanlight set in a mid-19th century stone case with a simplified entablature.

The symmetrical left side, which was designed as the front, has flush quoins, a plain projecting band at the first floor, and a cyma moulded cornice band at the second floor, all made of red sandstone. There are two sash windows per floor, each four panes wide and set flush under camber arches. The first floor has three blocked window openings with flat gauged brick arches, indicating significant late Georgian changes to the window layout. The windows on the right side and at the rear have been altered at various times, including a single-storey late 19th-century canted bay window at the rear.

Inside, the hall features two Gothick doors with four panels, the upper two of which are arched. Other doors on the lower two storeys consist of five panels and are late Georgian in style. The staircase to the first floor is S-shaped and enclosed, passing through a simplified classical archway, with a swept, moulded handrail on square balusters. The staircase to the second floor has three flights, with round-capped square newels and heavy balusters that are spiral-moulded on urn bases, with two balusters per step, all painted.

Local climate

The Old Vicarage receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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