The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1988. House. 1 related planning application.
The Old Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- errant-courtyard-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 July 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Vicarage, Palmer Street, Walsham-Le-Willows
- OS grid reference
- TM 003 706
- Coordinates
- 52.29753, 0.93723
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Vicarage is a house that was once used as a vicarage but was not originally built for that purpose. It dates from the early to mid 16th century and features a timber-framed structure that is rendered, with red brick gable ends and an old plain-tiled roof. The building has two storeys and follows a two-cell end-chimney plan.
The original chimney stack is located on the right side, integrated within the frame, and has a plain rectangular shaft made of old brick on a rendered base. The associated gable end is constructed from Tudor brick with diaperwork in blue headers, featuring a small original slit window on the upper floor and a circular window on the ground floor, along with later buttressing. Attached to this gable end is a small single-storey extension with a hipped roof that includes three cross windows. There is also a later external stack on the left, which has a plain shaft.
The building has a modillion cornice and plain bargeboards. On the upper floor, there are three windows: one is a two-light window, and two are three-light windows, all of which are old casements with a horizontal bar across the lights. On the ground floor, there is a four-light casement window with a transom to the right of the entrance door, and to the left, there is a half-glazed French door with two leaves, along with a small-paned single-light window next to the plank entrance door. The entrance features an open 20th-century rustic porch.
Inside, the building showcases good exposed framing, including close studding and main ceiling beams with very large chamfers. The tie beams are cambered and supported by long arched braces leading to the upper floor. There are reconstructed fireplaces, and remnants of two doorways in the internal partition wall, although there is no evidence of a typical service division on the left side. The roof may have originally been hipped on the left and contains plain queen-posts that are arched braced to the collars and arcade plates, with intermediate collars between the trusses.
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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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