The Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1951. Vicarage. 5 related planning applications.
The Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-pediment-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1951
- Type
- Vicarage
- Address
- The Vicarage, Church Street, Great Gransden, SG19 3AF
- OS grid reference
- TL 270 556
- Coordinates
- 52.18458, -0.14307
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Vicarage is a late 17th-century vicarage built by Barnabas Oley, who served as vicar, and restored around 1812. It is a two-story building with a basement on the north facade, designed with a symmetrical, double pile plan. The exterior is red brick, topped with a hipped roof covered in plain tiles, featuring a double row of saw-tooth bricks at the eaves cornice. There are three first-floor and three ground-floor windows, which are late 19th-century replacements with casements. A central doorway is approached by stone steps, leading to a 19th-century open porch with a flat roof and a half-glazed, panelled door set in a wooden frame. Inside, original features include a staircase with splat balusters, moulded rails, and square moulded newels, as well as moulded ceiling beams. The building is documented in the Victoria County History (Huntingdonshire, page 296), the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Huntingdonshire, page 122), and in a history of Great Gransden published in 1892 (page 177).
Local climate
The 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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 — 3 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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