The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1951. Residential. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- ancient-stair-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rother
- Constituency
- Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1951
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- The Old Vicarage, 66, Church Square, Rye, TN31 7HF
- OS grid reference
- TQ 921 203
- Coordinates
- 50.95022, 0.73369
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Vicarage is an 18th-century building located on the north side of Church Square, built on the site of a 14th-century structure where the dramatist John Fletcher was born in 1579. The house has two storeys and an attic, featuring three windows and two dormers. It has been slightly altered by a non-recent cement refacing. The wooden eaves cornice has been renewed, and it has a tiled roof. The entrance boasts a good doorway with fluted Doric columns, an entablature, a semi-circular fanlight, and a six-panel moulded door. Flanking the doorway are unusual 19th-century cemented bay windows, each with a semi-domed top and caps at both ends. These bay windows contain three lights, with the center light being flat and having a segmental head, while the outer lights are curved with flat heads. All glazing bars are missing.
Local climate
The Old 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 2 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
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