The Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1974. House. 7 related planning applications.
The Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- frozen-dormer-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 June 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Vicarage, Church Street, Kelvedon, CO5 9AL
- OS grid reference
- TL 855 184
- Coordinates
- 51.83423, 0.69233
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Vicarage is a house dating from the 18th century, with extensions added in the 19th century. The main part of the house faces northeast, and has two rear chimney stacks. A gault brick chimney stack was added to the right end in the 19th century. A wing extends to the rear of the left end of the main range, with an internal chimney stack on its right side. A short, parallel range runs to the rear of the right end, connected by a 19th-century extension with a slate roof, forming a rectangular overall plan. Further 19th-century single-storey extensions with hipped roofs are located to the left of the left rear wing and to the right of the right rear wing. A service wing sits to the rear, featuring an axial chimney stack, alongside a single-storey extension with a hipped roof at its right end. The front of the house has two storeys and a six-window front. The windows are 18th-century sash windows, mostly with six lights, and larger on the ground floor, containing a significant amount of crown glass. An off-centre six-panel door is flanked by fluted pilasters, connected at the top by a 20th-century moulded rail. The house has a hipped roof.
Local climate
The Vicarage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 — 4 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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