The Old Vicarage and Stable Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1986. Vicarage. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Vicarage and Stable Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tall-storey-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 1986
- Type
- Vicarage
- Address
- The Old Vicarage and Stable Cottage, Cardington, SY6 7JZ
- OS grid reference
- SO 504 951
- Coordinates
- 52.55237, -2.73179
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Vicarage and Stable Cottage is a vicarage, now a house, along with an attached stable block that is now partly used for domestic purposes. It was built around 1814-1815 and is constructed from coursed grey sandstone rubble with a hipped slate roof. The building features deep eaves, three brick ridge stacks, and one brick end stack.
The southwest front, which faces the garden, has a layout of 1:3:1 bays, with the center bay slightly projecting and topped with a triangular pedimented gable. The windows include glazing bar sashes, with 12 panes on the first floor and 16 panes on the ground floor, although some have been replaced with 20th-century casements that mimic the original sashes. The end bays have tripartite sashes on the ground floor. The central entrance has a 20th-century glazed door, while the original early 19th-century door has been moved to the northeast front. This door features panelled reveals, with the lower panel flush and the top two panels raised and fielded, and is framed by a doorcase with narrow fluted pilaster strips supporting a flat hood.
The left-hand return front consists of three bays, while the right-hand return front has two bays, featuring a painted imitation sash on the first floor to the left and early 19th-century canted bays on the ground floor with reeded architraves. There is a mid- to late 20th-century one-storey addition to the northeast, which incorporates a reused early 19th-century six-panelled door and a 20th-century doorcase with pilasters and an open triangular-pedimented hood.
Adjoining to the northeast is the former coach house and stable block, which includes two 20th-century gabled dormers, a 2-light leaded window, boarded loft openings, and segmental-headed boarded doors. The original entrance front was located on the southwest but was moved to the northeast in the 20th century.
Local climate
The Old Vicarage and Stable Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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 — 5 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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