Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1983. Vicarage.

Vicarage

WRENN ID
gaunt-garret-sunrise
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Constituency
Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 December 1983
Type
Vicarage
Address
Vicarage, Church Lane, Backford
OS grid reference
SJ 399 719
Coordinates
53.24088, -2.90175
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Vicarage is an 18th-century building that has undergone alterations and has additional wings at the rear and sides. It is constructed of limewashed brick and features a slate roof. The structure is two storeys high with three windows and follows a double pile plan. The upper floor has near flush sash windows with glazing bars, which are framed by moulded architraves and sit on stone cills. On the ground floor, there is one two-light casement window and a splayed bay window. The central entrance door consists of six panels and is topped with a rectangular glazed fanlight and flanked by wing lights, all set behind a 20th-century glazed porch. To the side, there is a bowed bay that includes a ground floor French window and a first-floor sash window with glazing bars. The building features brick stacks, one located at the gable end and another at the rear of the front bars. A timber moulded cove cornice runs along the eaves, and there is one timber finial on the gable. Inside, the doors are also six panels.

Local climate

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 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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