The Old Vicarage and Attached Railings, Gate and Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1999. Vicarage. 3 related planning applications.

The Old Vicarage and Attached Railings, Gate and Wall

WRENN ID
carved-lantern-pigeon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Camden
Constituency
Holborn and St Pancras
Country
England
Date first listed
11 January 1999
Type
Vicarage
Address
The Old Vicarage and Attached Railings, Gate and Wall, Oakley Square, NW1 1NJ
OS grid reference
TQ 293 833
Coordinates
51.5345, -0.13658
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Vicarage, now a private residence, was built in 1861 by John Johnson. It is constructed of yellow stock brick with stone, red brick, and dark yellow brick banding and detailing, topped with a slate roof featuring red cresting. A tall brick chimney-stack is at the rear, and a pyramidal roof covers the stair tower. The building is in a Gothic Revival style.

The exterior is two storeys, with an attic and basement, and is asymmetrical in design. A deep band of zig-zag patterned brickwork, outlined with stone, runs around the building. The main entrance is within a lower, mono-pitched roof bay on the right side, featuring a round-arched panelled door with quatrefoil and trefoil-headed glazed panels, set beneath a gabled trefoil porch supported by Decorated columns; a carved Agnus Dei is in the apex. To the right of the entrance is a trefoil-headed lancet window and a two-pane sash window with a shaped stone lintel on the first floor. The left-hand gabled bay features canted bay windows rising from the basement to the second floor, topped with a penthouse roof beneath a two-light window with trefoil heads, colonettes, and quatrefoil under a pointed arch. The ground floor central window has colonnette and foil enrichment. The right-hand return side has similarly styled windows, and the stair tower has a deep diaper-patterned band with oculi below the eaves. Decorated cast-iron rainwater heads are present.

Inside, original features remain, including Gothic fireplaces, cornices, and a staircase with twisted balusters and quatrefoil fretwork.

Attached to the property are cast-iron railings with enriched cross finials, an entrance gate, a stone-capped wall constructed of Kentish ragstone random rubble. A historical note indicates that the now-demolished Church of St Matthew, also designed by Johnson, previously stood to the right. The architect was best known for his designs for Alexandra Palace.

Local climate

The Old Vicarage and Attached Railings, Gate and Wall sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more 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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