Rear Wing of Vaga House is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 June 1952. Barn. 6 related planning applications.

Rear Wing of Vaga House

WRENN ID
tenth-sill-amber
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
Barn
Address
Rear Wing of Vaga House, Quay Street, Hereford, HR1 2NH
OS grid reference
SO 510 396
Coordinates
52.05312, -2.71484
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The rear wing of Vaga House is a barn, dating to the 17th and 18th centuries, and now incorporated into a dwelling. The structure is timber-framed with brick facing, the gable being of 18th-century brick. It has a 20th-century plain tile roof and 20th-century brick stacks, one to the southwest and one to the north. The east front, dating from the 18th century, features 6/6 and paired 6/6 sash windows. There is also a tripartite 19th-century window with 4/4:6/6:4/4 sashes, and a 19th-century 6-panel door beneath a segmental arch. The left returned side has a casement window and a 6/6 sash window, both under segmental arches, set into 18th-century brickwork. The interior is accessed from the main staircase of Vaga House. On the first floor, there is an unhung 4-panel door and a panelled overlight. The ground floor has a part-glazed panelled door with an 18th-century overlight, a flagstone floor, a clerestory light, a 19th-century 4-panel door and overlight, two plank doors, an early 20th-century glazed wall unit and cupboards, two unhung 4-panel doors, one plank door, and one 2-panel door.

Local climate

Rear Wing of Vaga 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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