Vicarage to the Church of St James is a Grade II listed building in the Dudley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 December 1986. Vicarage.
Vicarage to the Church of St James
- WRENN ID
- late-corbel-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dudley
- Constituency
- Stourbridge MP: Cat Eccles (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 December 1986
- Type
- Vicarage
- Address
- Vicarage to the Church of St James, Bridgnorth Road
- OS grid reference
- SO 890 847
- Coordinates
- 52.46043, -2.16195
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Vicarage to the Church of St James, built around 1860 by G. Bidlake, is located on the north side of Bridgnorth Road in Wollaston. The building is constructed of black brick, featuring a yellow brick cornice and stone dressings, with quoins and gable parapets. The roof is plain and fishscale tiled, arranged in decorative bands, and includes a ridge stack at the left end and another stack behind the gable on the right. The vicarage is two storeys high, with a garret only in the cross wing gable to the right.
The front has three windows: a two-light window under the eaves gable to the left, a single window in the centre, and another single window to the right, with a single window in the gable above. There is a wide ground-floor window to the left and a canted bay window to the right. The central doorway features a pointed arched bead.
Local climate
Vicarage to the Church of St James receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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