The Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Worcester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1954. A 19th century Vicarage. 7 related planning applications.

The Vicarage

WRENN ID
twisted-cornice-dew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Worcester
Constituency
Worcester MP: Tom Collins (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 May 1954
Type
Vicarage
Address
The Vicarage, 23, St Georges Square, WR1 1HX
OS grid reference
SO 846 562
Coordinates
52.20415, -2.22547
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Vicarage is a vicarage located at St George's Square, built around 1830 with later additions and alterations, including a likely late 19th-century range at the rear. It is constructed of brick with painted stucco dressings and features a hipped slate roof with ridge and hip tiles. The building has four brick stacks, with a pair at each end, each featuring two string courses, oversailing detail, and pots.

The exterior presents a symmetrical facade over three storeys. The first floor has three windows, including a central French window with margin-glazing and a fanlight. The ground and first floors are fitted with 8/8 sash windows with flat arches made of red rubbed brick, while the second floor has a central 3/6 sash and two 4/8 sashes, all in plain reveals with sills. The central entrance is adorned with a distyle Tuscan porch, engaged pilasters, and an entablature, leading to a five-panel door where the top four panels are glazed, and the bottom panel is flush-beaded with an incised elliptical motif. The fanlight features a circle-and-teardrop design.

Not inspected, the interior details are not documented. The building includes subsidiary features such as Venetian shutters and shutter boxes on the outer first-floor windows, with hinged shutters on the second floor. The central first-floor window has an individual balcony with cast-iron balusters featuring a scrolled-heart pattern, similar to those on Nos 28 and 29 St George's Square, and is topped with a domed, Moorish-style hood.

Historically, the Vicarage is marked as such on the 1886 Ordnance Survey map and may be one of the three buildings depicted on the north side of the Square on Clement's map of 1828. It is believed to have served as the vicarage for the first Church of St George, which was built in 1828 and demolished before 1895 to make way for a new church.

Local climate

The Vicarage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2005
  • Related listed building consents — 7 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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