The Vicarage is a Grade II* listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1961. Residential.
The Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- bitter-gravel-spring
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1961
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- The Vicarage, 15, High Street, Clare
- OS grid reference
- TL 769 453
- Coordinates
- 52.07867, 0.58045
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Vicarage is a 16th century timber-framed and plastered house located on the west side of High Street in Clare. Originally built as a hall house, it has undergone significant alterations and additions in the 19th century. The building stands two storeys tall, with the older section featuring a jettied upper storey at the front. Most of the windows are mullioned and transomed casements without glazing bars. The north end includes a wing with shallow oriel bays supported by console brackets. A four-panel door is topped by a flat hood on brackets. The roof is tiled and features a large red brick square chimney stack. Inside, there is fine panelling from the late 16th or early 17th century, as well as some 18th-century panelling. The Vicarage is part of a group that includes the wall to the Vicarage, Galloway House, Church Farmhouse, and the Parish Church of SS Peter and Paul.
Local climate
The 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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