The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1952. Vicarage.
The Old Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- first-span-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1952
- Type
- Vicarage
- Address
- The Old Vicarage, Atcham
- OS grid reference
- SJ 541 091
- Coordinates
- 52.6785, -2.6799
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Vicarage is a part of a former vicarage, now functioning as a house. It dates from the early 19th century, although its windows were altered in the mid to late 20th century. The building is constructed of red brick with some stone detailing and features a plain tile roof with two spans. It has two storeys and includes a plinth, a dentil brick eaves cornice, and coped parapeted gable ends. There is a small 20th-century diamond-shafted chimney stack on the front range, positioned off-centre to the right, as well as triple and single diamond-shafted stacks on the ridge at the rear. The façade has four bays with glazing bar sash windows, most of which are 20th-century replicas. A gabled porch is located in the second bay from the right, featuring a coped verge parapet and a four-centred arched entrance with a pair of 19th-century boarded doors, along with 20th-century glazing bar sashes on the sides. The north front is gabled and consists of two bays.
Inside, the ground-floor front room to the left has a trefoiled Gothic frieze and a moulded cornice that resembles details by John Nash at Longner Hall. Historical photographs indicate that the house once had a likely late 19th-century canted Gothic bay window on the north side and possibly early 19th-century windows at the rear with Y-tracery, both of which were replaced during the 20th-century renovations. The Old Vicarage was originally part of a larger vicarage, which has since been divided from The Vicarage Cottage.
Local climate
The Old Vicarage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% 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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