The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Gravesham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1976. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-balcony-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gravesham
- Constituency
- Gravesham MP: Dr Lauren Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1976
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Vicarage, Church Street, Higham, ME3 7LR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 716 741
- Coordinates
- 51.44017, 0.46827
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Vicarage is a 16th-century timber-framed cottage that stands two stories tall and is faced in painted weatherboarding. It features a thatched roof with gable ends and has a single-storey modern lean-to at the rear. The cottage has horizontally sliding wood windows and a simple entrance door. Inside, the ingle fireplace has been bricked up, but an oak beam with a four-centred arch is exposed.
Local climate
The Old 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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
- No sale records on file
- 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
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