The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1955. House.

The Old Vicarage

WRENN ID
stranded-foundation-larch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 July 1955
Type
House
Address
The Old Vicarage, Metfield
OS grid reference
TM 294 816
Coordinates
52.38476, 1.37009
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Vicarage is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, with a core dating from the 16th century, an early 17th-century rear wing, and 19th-century alterations and additions. The building is timber framed and plastered, topped with a plaintiled roof. It has two storeys and an attic, arranged in a three-cell form. The façade features five 19th-century casement windows, three sets of French windows on the ground floor, and a half-glazed entrance door. There is an internal stack with four shafts arranged in a sawtooth pattern and a gable stack to the left. Between the two stacks is a hexagonal bell turret supported by slender columns, topped with a leaded ogee roof and a wind vane. The interior has been Victorianized, with little of the original structure visible except at the service end, where there are heavy plain joists. The roof over the main range is not the original.

Local climate

The Old Vicarage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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