The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the East Riding of Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1950. A Post-Medieval Vicarage.

The Old Vicarage

WRENN ID
heavy-ledge-rain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Riding of Yorkshire
Constituency
Beverley and Holderness MP: Graham Stuart (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 March 1950
Type
Vicarage
Period
Post-Medieval
Address
The Old Vicarage, 52, Eastgate, Beverley
OS grid reference
TA 037 393
Coordinates
53.83977, -0.42433
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Vicarage is a building with parts dating from the medieval period, 1703, and the early 19th century. The front facing Eastgate is early 19th century, featuring two storeys constructed of white brick. The first floor has three blank windows, while the ground floor has two, all topped with stone arched heads and keystones carved with a feather motif. The doorway is framed by reeded wooden jambs with paterae, leading to a six-panelled door and a fanlight. There is also a door in the screen wall to the yard, which is topped by a canted blocking course with anthemion decorations, above a light stone cornice. The roof is slate.

The south front, which faces Minster Yard, presents a symmetrical design with a tall early 19th-century block at the Eastgate end, made of white brick. This section features a large triple window on both the upper and lower floors, a simple cornice, and a slate roof. Extending westward from this pavilion is a long, low wing, also refaced in white brick in the early 19th century, which has four windows on the first floor and a triple window along with a mid-19th century Gothic bay in stone on the ground floor, as well as a single window and a glazed door. The eaves are made of wood, and there are three gabled dormers on the gabled pantile roof. Further to the west is a lower one-storey wing built of red brick, featuring two large windows, wooden eaves gutter, and a pantile roof.

Inside, the staircase has a closed string with large turned balusters, and the landing features spiral twisted balusters, plain newels with finials, drop finials, and a simply moulded handrail. One ground floor room has fielded panelling up to dado height, with a chimney piece that includes a moulded architrave, pulvinated frieze, and moulded mantel shelf, along with a fielded panel and box cornice above. There are also four linenfold panels that are said to have been brought from Old Suffolk Place in Hull.

Local climate

The Old Vicarage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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