Vicarage House is a Grade I listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1967. A C17 House. 4 related planning applications.

Vicarage House

WRENN ID
broken-facade-furze
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Ribble Valley
Constituency
Pendle and Clitheroe MP: Jonathan Hinder (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 February 1967
Type
House
Address
Vicarage House, Wiswell, BB7 9DF
OS grid reference
SD 745 373
Coordinates
53.83182, -2.3889
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Vicarage House is a house dating from the early 17th century. It is constructed of sandstone rubble with a stone slate roof. The building has two storeys and follows a lobby-entry plan. The windows are mullioned, featuring a hollow chamfer, outer chamfer, and hoods. To the left of the entrance door are windows of 4 and 5 lights, while to the right are windows of 2 and 3 lights. The first-floor windows are arranged as 4, 2, 2, and 5 lights. A chamfered surround with a Tudor arch frames the entrance door. Chimneys are located to the left and right of the door, and on the left-hand gable, which projects from the ridge. The gables are coped, with kneelers and ball finials. A distinctive feature is a 10-light mullioned and transomed window on the first floor of the left-hand gable.

Inside, the entrance door opens into a lobby, leading to two large, back-to-back fireplaces, originally with firehoods. Each fireplace has a stone jamb and a chamfered bressumer with run-out stops. The right-hand inglenook contains a smaller, reset stone fireplace with a Tudor arch. The rooms served by these fireplaces display exposed chamfered and stopped main beams and common joists. The house includes extensive timber panelling, believed to be largely 17th century, but incorporating elements possibly from the early 16th century; some of this panelling appears to have been re-arranged or imported from elsewhere. A room to the right of the door is separated from the two adjacent rooms by a panelled wall composed of vertical planks and muntins, featuring two intermediate horizontal rails and two doorways with depressed arched heads, each with an incised cross. Some of the muntins bear the carpenter's marks. A similar panelled wall divides the room to the left of the door from the adjacent room, but here the rails and muntins are moulded, and the doorway has a Tudor-arched head with carved flower and tracery decoration in the spandrels. Set within an inglenook, surrounding a 19th or 20th-century fireplace, is a further section of panelling complete with two doorways sharing similar Tudor-arched heads, with tracery decoration on the upper parts of the doors. The staircase is now situated within the lobby and consists of a straight flight with turned balusters. Additional panelling is found on the first floor.

Local climate

Vicarage House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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