Garden Building, at the Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. Garden building.
Garden Building, at the Old Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- long-barrel-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- Garden building
- Address
- Garden Building, at the Old Vicarage, Mill Way, Grantchester
- OS grid reference
- TL 435 552
- Coordinates
- 52.17639, 0.09798
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden building at the Old Vicarage, dating from around 1855, was originally used as a theatre, photographic studio, and a sham ruin. It is constructed from clay bat and yellow brick, featuring a pantiled roof with a side stack that has two linked diagonally-set shafts. The building has an irregular plan and stands two storeys high. It includes lancet windows with casements, some of which have reset stained glass, and a two-bay loggia. The doorway is framed by a two-centred arch. Attached to the building is a sham ruin made from similar materials. Inside, the ground floor is sunken, creating an undercroft beneath a first-floor room that was originally used for theatrical productions. This building was built by Samuel Widnall, who lived at the Old Vicarage and was known for his local history writings.
Local climate
Garden Building, at 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 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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