The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1975. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- heavy-nave-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Vicarage, High Road, Shillington, SG5 3LT
- OS grid reference
- TL 124 338
- Coordinates
- 51.99181, -0.36303
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Vicarage is a house, formerly a vicarage, built in the early 19th century. It is constructed of yellow brick and has slate roofs. The building has a complex plan that is roughly L-shaped and consists of two storeys.
The east elevation features an asymmetrical three-bay facade, with two slightly projecting bays on the right-hand side and a slightly recessed bay on the left-hand side. The two right-hand bays have tripartite sash windows on both floors, while the left-hand bay has a sash window on each floor. All the sash windows include glazing bars and have gauged brick flat heads above them. There is a brick band at the first floor level, and the deep eaves are supported by cut brackets at the gable ends. The roof has one brick ridge stack and one integral gable end brick stack, both of which have round-headed arches at their bases.
On the north elevation, there is a six-panel door, with the top pair being glazed, which is surmounted by a semi-circular fanlight. This door is set in a round-headed opening that features ashlar impost bands and a keystone. Additionally, there is a canted bay window on the ground floor and sash windows with glazing bars.
Local climate
The Old Vicarage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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