The Vicarage, Including Section of Curved Wall Attached to Left and Right of House is a Grade II* listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1952. House.

The Vicarage, Including Section of Curved Wall Attached to Left and Right of House

WRENN ID
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Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 June 1952
Type
House
Address
The Vicarage, Including Section of Curved Wall Attached to Left and Right of House, CO9 3EZ
OS grid reference
TL 784 354
Coordinates
51.98846, 0.59806
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Vicarage, located at No. 15 on Queen Street in Castle Hedingham, is an 18th-century house constructed of red brick. It features a double range roof covered with red plain tiles and has curved gables. The building stands three storeys high with a basement and has a parapet front that slightly projects at the center. The façade is adorned with a brick modillion cornice and stucco bands separating the storeys, along with stucco rusticated quoins.

The window arrangement consists of a 2:1:2 pattern, primarily featuring small paned vertically sliding sashes set beneath gauged brick arches. Notably, there is a Venetian window at the center of the first floor, topped by a semi-elliptical window composed of five segments with a glazed upper margin.

Access to the house is via six central steps leading to an elegant Ionic porch, which is supported by columns and includes a moulded frieze and dentilled soffits beneath the pediment. The entrance features a six-panelled door, with matching windows flanking it on either side.

Additionally, there are red brick walls approximately 1.5 metres high that curve forward from the left and right corners of the house to the road, each wall containing four recessed arches and plain pillars.

Local climate

The Vicarage, Including Section of Curved Wall Attached to Left and Right of House 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 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% 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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