The Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 October 1984. Vicarage.
The Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- hushed-hearth-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 October 1984
- Type
- Vicarage
- Address
- The Vicarage, Higham
- OS grid reference
- TL 746 655
- Coordinates
- 52.26034, 0.55823
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Vicarage is a vicarage built around 1870, possibly designed by G. Gilbert Scott. It has two storeys and an irregular shape. The exterior is constructed from flint rubble with red brick bands and dressings, and the window and door surrounds are made of limestone. The roofs are slated, featuring bands of fishscale slates. The external chimneys are made of flint rubble with red brick quoins. The building has mullioned windows of limestone in various Gothic styles, some of which include hoodmoulds and moulded heads, with deeply recessed casements made of metal and wood. The entrance bay is gabled and set forward, featuring a hoodmoulded pointed doorway in the style of the 13th century, with a boarded door that has foliate iron hinges. Above the entrance is an oriel window with a corbelled brick cill and a slated pyramid roof. The Vicarage is included for its group value.
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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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