The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1984. House. 5 related planning applications.

The Old Vicarage

WRENN ID
open-lead-meadow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ashford
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 August 1984
Type
House
Address
The Old Vicarage, Canterbury Road, Godmersham, CT4 7DT
OS grid reference
TR 062 507
Coordinates
51.21886, 0.95189
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Vicarage is a house dating from the 17th century, with refacing in the 18th and 19th centuries. It features a timber frame clad in red brick and has a plain tile roof. The building is two storeys high and has a moulded wooden eaves cornice, a gabled roof with end stacks on the left and right, and a central stack. On the first floor, there are three glazing bar sash windows, while the ground floor has two 19th-century canted bay windows and a central 20th-century half-glazed door set in a gabled porch. To the left, there is a 19th-century half-timbered wing with a red brick base, a plain tile roof, and one oriel window. At the rear, there is a parallel range.

Local climate

The Old Vicarage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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