The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. Vicarage.
The Old Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- half-step-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- Vicarage
- Address
- The Old Vicarage, Church End, Kempston Rural
- OS grid reference
- TL 014 480
- Coordinates
- 52.12132, -0.51924
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Vicarage is a former vicarage built in the mid-19th century. It features a stucco exterior with a rear wing made of whitewashed brick and has a hipped Welsh slate roof. The building is two storeys tall, with the main block displaying first floor sash windows that have glazing bars, and ground floor French doors, all equipped with shutters. The rear block has plain sash windows. The east elevation includes a trelliswork porch with a balcony above it. A covered way with a leaded roof supported by slender wooden columns leads to the front door.
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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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