The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1964. Vicarage.
The Old Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- errant-casement-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 July 1964
- Type
- Vicarage
- Address
- The Old Vicarage, Vicarage Lane, Podington, Wellingborough, NN29 7HR
- OS grid reference
- SP 941 626
- Coordinates
- 52.25397, -0.62148
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Vicarage is a former vicarage dating from 1778, as indicated by the inscription on a circular panel in the tympanum of the pediment. The building is constructed from coursed limestone rubble with ironstone quoins, bands, and window heads, and features a hipped Welsh slate roof. Originally designed in an L-plan, it has had later wings added to the rear.
The structure is two storeys high. The northwest elevation has a central section that slightly projects and features a pediment with three 1:1:1 sash windows on the first floor; the outer two windows have glazing bars. There is a 19th-century, one-storey flat-roofed addition at the centre. A moulded cornice is present, along with a three-light sash window. The southeast wing has three sash windows with glazing bars on each floor, and there is a one-storey extension to this wing with a gabled slate roof. The southeast gable end displays a datestone from 1783. Additionally, there is a 19th-century wing to the northeast that also has a hipped Welsh slate roof.
Local climate
The Old Vicarage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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