The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1971. Vicarage, house. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- stark-wall-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1971
- Type
- Vicarage, house
- Address
- The Old Vicarage, Beech Hill Road, RG7 2BB
- OS grid reference
- SU 698 644
- Coordinates
- 51.37473, -0.99805
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Vicarage is a house, originally built in 1869 as a vicarage by William Butterfield, and designed in the Gothic style. The building is constructed of red brick with bands and dressings of blue brick, incorporating diaper patterning. It has a tiled roof, which is partly gabled and partly hipped. The property is two storeys high, with chimneys on the ridges featuring dovetail offsets. The brickwork includes gables and toothed eaves. Windows are sash windows, some with chamfered brick lintels and relieving arches made of blue brick. A recessed entry porch is located in the internal corner of the north-projecting gable.
Local climate
The Old Vicarage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings