The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1988. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- empty-remnant-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Malvern Hills
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Vicarage, 26, Main Road, Kempsey, WR5 3NB
- OS grid reference
- SO 853 487
- Coordinates
- 52.13724, -2.21508
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Vicarage is an early to mid-19th century house situated on Main Road, Kempsey. It is constructed of stucco and has a hipped slate roof. The house has two storeys and two bays, with flanking pilaster strips and an eaves band on the facade. The windows are sash windows with glazing bars and louvred shutters. The doorway, located in the right-hand bay, features a round head with a fanlight, a reeded surround with impost blocks decorated with paterae, and a partly glazed door with margin lights. A two-storey cast-iron verandah extends across the full width of the facade. Chimneys are situated to the left and right of the building.
Local climate
The Old Vicarage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1995
- 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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