Shirley Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Croydon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 October 1981. Vicarage.

Shirley Vicarage

WRENN ID
first-ashlar-snow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Croydon
Constituency
Croydon East MP: Natasha Irons (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 October 1981
Type
Vicarage
Address
Shirley Vicarage, Shirley Church Road
OS grid reference
TQ 357 653
Coordinates
51.37086, -0.05072
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Shirley Vicarage, built around 1840, is a two-storey building made of brown stock brick with shallow slated roofs and overhanging eaves. It features shallow projecting bays on the garden front and a canted bay window on the west elevation. The vicarage also has arched timber and glass verandahs. It was once the home of Reverend William Wilks, who lived from 1839 to 1923 and served as the Secretary of the Royal Horticultural Society, where he developed the Shirley Poppy.

Local climate

Shirley Vicarage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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