The Old Deanery House is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 June 1952. House, school. 4 related planning applications.

The Old Deanery House

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Herefordshire, County of
Constituency
Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 June 1952
Type
House, school
Address
The Old Deanery House, Cathedral Close, Hereford, HR1 2NG
OS grid reference
SO 510 398
Coordinates
52.05456, -2.71472
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Deanery House is a house that now serves as a school, dating from the 19th century but with earlier origins. It is constructed of dressed sandstone and features a plain tile roof with various brick stacks. The building has an E-shaped plan with gable wings and stands two storeys high with an attic. The facade has a nine-window range, showcasing plain sashes set in splayed moulded ashlar reveals and architraves, along with a mullion window containing two plain sashes in the gables.

At the center, there is an Early English style gable porch with studded plank doors, flanked by similar window arrangements and a chamfered ashlar plinth. On the right side, there are seven 6/6 sashes, some dating from the late 19th century, in ashlar reveals beneath stone lintels, and eight similar sashes on the ground floor under relieving arches. To the left, there is a further gable wing with 3-light and 2-light stone mullion windows featuring 4/4 sashes, along with stone stacks topped with brick caps and scattered fenestration.

Inside, the house features an early 19th-century staircase with a moulded rail, turned balusters, and moulded newels with finials, as well as a mid-19th-century open-well staircase with cast-iron balusters. The second floor includes a 18th-century fireplace, a 19th-century fireplace, and a 19th-century moulded fireplace with an overmantel, along with panelling and a coved ceiling. The first floor has late 19th-century 4-panel and 6-panel doors, an early 19th-century fireplace with a marble surround, a moulded ceiling frame, and a ceiling cornice. The ground floor features margin-glazed overlights, 6-panel doors, a 19th-century tiled fireplace and overmantel, 4-panel doors with architraves (including display rails), a 19th-century fireplace, a decorated plaster ceiling, a 19th-century cast-iron fireplace, bookshelves, and an 18th-century fireplace with a marble surround. The cellar includes a 19th-century 6-panel door, a plank door, and a brick vault.

Local climate

The Old Deanery House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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