Old Vicarage and Boundary Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Rushcliffe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1986. Former vicarage, farmhouse.

Old Vicarage and Boundary Wall

WRENN ID
leaning-cobalt-bracken
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rushcliffe
Constituency
Newark MP: Robert Jenrick (RUK)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 November 1986
Type
Former vicarage, farmhouse
Address
Old Vicarage and Boundary Wall, Church Lane, Kneeton
OS grid reference
SK 709 460
Coordinates
53.00673, -0.94393
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Vicarage, now a farmhouse, dates from the late 17th century and has been raised with additions made in the mid 18th century and late 19th century. It is constructed of coursed rubble, dressed stone, and brick, topped with a pantile roof. The building features brick and chamfered stone plinths, double corbelled eaves, and coped gables with kneelers. It is two storeys high and has an L-plan layout, measuring three bays wide by three bays deep.

The east front includes a late 19th-century gabled wing on the right, a mullioned casement to the left, and a blocked ashlar doorway to its right. In the return angle, there is a 19th-century canted brick porch with a flat lead roof and a door flanked by single casements. Above the porch, there are two mullioned casements. The south gable features a 19th-century toilet block to the left, which is three bays wide, and a mullioned casement with a hood mould to its right. The south front has a canted hipped bay window with three casements on the right, with a mullioned casement above and a small casement to its right. Further right is a 19th-century sash and cross casement, with a triple sash featuring a segmental head above to the left.

On the west front, there is a projecting 19th-century gabled wing to the left, along with a doorway with a segmental head and a mullioned casement with a hood mould. Above, to the left, is a triple sash with a segmental head and two differently sized mullioned casements to the right. The north side has a blocked window and a barred triple sash with segmental heads to the left, along with a larger shuttered window to the right. Above, there is a blocked opening with a segmental head to the left.

Adjoining the building is a boundary wall to the west, made of brick with ramped gabled brick coping, featuring a rubble plinth and brick buttresses. This wall is L-shaped, measuring 30 meters and 20 meters long. The boundary wall to the east is constructed of brick and rubble with gabled brick and concrete copings, and it includes an incurve leading to a wooden gate with chamfered square piers topped with pyramidal stone caps. This wall is approximately 30 meters long.

Local climate

Old Vicarage and Boundary Wall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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