The Vicarage is a Grade II* listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1951. Vicarage.
The Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- hushed-paling-gold
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1951
- Type
- Vicarage
- Address
- The Vicarage, Vicarage Road, Clun
- OS grid reference
- SO 300 805
- Coordinates
- 52.41881, -3.02952
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Vicarage is a vicarage built in the late 17th century, with alterations and additions made in the late 18th century and mid-to-late 19th century. It is constructed from squared and coursed limestone, with roughcast at the rear, and features a hipped graded slate roof. The building has two storeys and an attic, characterized by deep eaves and a central brick stack behind the ridge, along with an off-centre brick stack to the left and a large brick ridge stack to the right. There is a central flat-topped dormer with a two-light casement.
The facade consists of seven bays, with 19th-century wooden leaded cross windows. The central entrance has 20th-century double half-glazed doors set within a 19th-century gabled wooden porch. To the left at the front, there is probably a mid-to-late 19th-century one-storey lean-to addition with a hipped slate roof, featuring two 20th-century casements and a glazed door. The left-hand end elevation has late 18th-century glazing bar sashes, while the right-hand end elevation has four bays with blocked windows, including a blind window on the first floor to the left.
At the rear, which was altered in the late 18th century, there is a 1:2:1 bay rhythm with a projecting centre that was formerly topped by a stone cornice and blocking course. The rear features glazing bar sashes, with 16-pane windows on the ground floor to the left and right.
Inside, there is an early 18th-century dog-leg staircase with a landing, open string, cut tread-ends, turned balusters (three per tread), a moulded ramped handrail, a fluted columnular bottom newel, and five turned balusters as the half-landing newel. The ground floor room to the right at the rear has an egg-and-dart moulded fireplace surround and panelling that is probably in an early 18th-century style, dating from around 1900. This building is likely a late 17th-century U-shaped house, with the space between the rear wings filled in and the entire rear elevation re-fronted in the late 18th century.
Local climate
The Vicarage receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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