The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. House.
The Old Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- keen-buttress-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham East and Saddleworth MP: Debbie Abrahams (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Vicarage, Shepherd's Green, Saddleworth
- OS grid reference
- SE 005 042
- Coordinates
- 53.53469, -1.99243
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Vicarage is a house built in 1780 for Thomas Shaw. It is constructed from watershot hammer-dressed stone and features a graduated stone slate roof. The building has a three-bay single-depth plan with three storeys and a small wing at the rear. Notable architectural details include a projecting plinth, quoins, and shaped eaves gutter brackets. The central door is adorned with a fanlight and a chamfered stone surround, flanked by six-light windows that have been heightened at some point. The first floor also features six-light windows and a central two-light window, all with recessed chamfered mullions and king mullions. On the second floor, there are three four-light recessed flat-faced mullion windows with continuous head and sill bands. The house has gable chimney stacks and a blocked taking-in door at the rear, along with one and two-light gable windows. The rear wing, dating from the 19th century, has been altered to include a garage and a small extension.
Local climate
The Old Vicarage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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