St Philips Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1998. Vicarage.
St Philips Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- vacant-threshold-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Southport MP: Patrick Hurley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1998
- Type
- Vicarage
- Address
- St Philips Vicarage, Scarisbrick New Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 344 164
- Coordinates
- 53.64034, -2.99342
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Philip's Vicarage is a vicarage for the Church of St Philip and St Paul, built in 1888. It is constructed from coursed sandstone rubble with freestone dressings and features a slate roof. The building showcases an eclectic style with some Gothic elements and is designed in an L-plan with a gabled wing that projects to the right.
The vicarage has two storeys plus a cellar and attics, with a three-window range. The outer bays are gabled and include a sill band and string course at the ground floor level. The gables are steeply pitched and coped, each topped with ball finials. The central section features a two-centred arched doorway that is approached by a flight of four steps, which are offset to the left. The arch is chamfered in three orders and has a hoodmould that connects at the apex to a quatrefoil on the string course. This hoodmould is flanked by trefoil-headed lancets and extends to the left, where it meets the coping of the left retaining wall of the steps. The short walls on either side of the steps have rectangular terminal piers with pitched coping, and the left wall is decorated with trefoiled blind arcading.
On the left side, there are two 1/1 sash windows at the first floor, separated by a chamfered mullion with an enriched head. Smaller but similar sashes are present in the attic, along with one 1/1 sash window above the doorway. The gable end of the right wing features a two-storey canted bay window with single and paired 1/1 sashes on each floor, topped with a hipped roof. There are tall corniced chimneys offset to the right on the front slope of the roof, with a similar ridge chimney to the left. The left return wall includes a prominent canted bay window in the front bay with a polygonal roof, a smaller rectangular bay window in the rear bay, and above these, there is a single-light window at the first floor and a gabled half-dormer in the attic. A single-storey service wing, or former stable, is located at the rear of this end. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
St Philips Vicarage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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