Old Vicarage Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1986. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Old Vicarage Cottages
- WRENN ID
- bitter-column-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Vicarage Cottages, 1, 2, 3 and 4, Church Hill, Westhall, IP19 8NU
- OS grid reference
- TM 422 803
- Coordinates
- 52.36781, 1.55776
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Vicarage Cottages is a former vicarage that has been converted into a row of four cottages. The building dates back to the early 15th century, with later modifications. It is two storeys high with attics and features a timber frame encased in mid-19th century red brick, with a roof that is partly covered in clay pantiles and partly in double Roman tiles. There are two internal chimney stacks with plain red brick shafts. The windows include some 19th-century three-light casements with segmental arched heads and horizontal bars, as well as some 20th-century two-light casements. The building also has 19th-century dormers with single-pitch sloping roofs and various doors and timber porches.
Inside, there is little exposed framing, except in Cottage No. 2, which showcases a fine crownpost truss and a complete smoke-blackened medieval roof that relates to an open hall of two bays. This features a cambered tie-beam, removed braces, and a tall octagonal crown-post with a moulded cap and base, braced in four directions at the head with wide, heavy braces. The quality of this work, along with the building's location opposite the church, suggests that it may have originally served as a parish guildhall before becoming a vicarage.
Local climate
Old Vicarage Cottages receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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