The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. A C17 House, former vicarage. 7 related planning applications.
The Old Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- calm-lancet-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- House, former vicarage
- Address
- The Old Vicarage, 32, Church Road, Willington, MK44 3QB
- OS grid reference
- TL 109 500
- Coordinates
- 52.13718, -0.3796
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Vicarage is a house, originally built in the 17th century and altered in the 19th century. It was formerly the vicarage for the parish. The house is timber-framed with a roughcast exterior and coursed rubble to the east gable, all colourwashed. It has a red tile roof. The original layout comprised three rooms, with a single storey and attics. On the ground floor, the left-hand side has French windows with geometrical glazing bars, leading to a large lean-to conservatory. A gabled brick porch is centrally positioned, featuring a pointed arched entrance, flanked by a single light window with a pointed arched head and a 3-light 20th-century casement. The attic has three gabled dormers, each with a 2-light casement window. A substantial red brick chimney stack serves two rooms on the left-hand side, featuring four linked diagonal shafts on a square base. All gables have cusped bargeboards with moulded finials. A colourwashed, two-storey brick wing was added in the 19th century, projecting from the rear east end.
Local climate
The Old Vicarage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 2001
- 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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