The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House.
The Old Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- keen-sandstone-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Vicarage, Chapel Road, Great Tey
- OS grid reference
- TL 892 259
- Coordinates
- 51.89952, 0.74867
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Vicarage is an early 19th-century Regency house located on Great Tey Chapel Road. It has a three-bay, two-storey façade facing east, constructed from gault brick in a Flemish bond pattern. The ground floor features a central front door that is sheltered by an Ionic portico with an entablature, supported by two columns and two pilasters, and has panelled reveals. On either side of the door are pairs of eight-pane sash windows with stone sills and straight gauged heads. The first storey has three matching windows. The roof is hipped and slated, with eaves and two gault chimney stacks on the rear slope, and the building has a rectangular plan. Inside, there are well-preserved original stairs, fire surrounds, reveal shutters, and plaster ceilings. Additionally, there is a crinkle-crankle wall in the garden.
Local climate
The Old Vicarage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 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 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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