The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 February 1985. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- peeling-postern-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 February 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Vicarage, Withington, SY4 4QA
- OS grid reference
- SJ 578 131
- Coordinates
- 52.71452, -2.62525
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Vicarage is a house dating from the late 16th century or 17th century, with some alterations and additions made in the late 20th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and features painted brick nogging on a rubble plinth, along with painted brick additions and a plain tile roof. The building has a 'Hall' range consisting of two framed bays, with a gabled flush cross-wing to the north of one bay, and later additions.
Originally, there was an integral brick end stack at the rear of the cross-wing, which has been changed to a ridge stack due to the addition. The framing consists of square panels, with four panels extending from the sole-plate to the wall-plate, and short straight braces. On the north front, there are two 20th-century casements on the first floor and a 20th-century casement to the right on the ground floor. To the left, there is a small porch, probably from the late 19th century, and an outbuilding at right angles, which has an integral brick end stack, a segmental-headed two-light casement at the front, and a pair of boarded doors on the right-hand return front.
A large 20th-century gabled addition projects at right angles to the right, featuring an integral brick end stack and two three-light segmental-headed casements on each floor. Inside the cross-wing gable-end, a collar and tie-beam truss with queen-struts and V-struts is exposed. The main entrance to the house is now located on the west side.
Local climate
The Old Vicarage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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