The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1986. Vicarage.
The Old Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- fading-keystone-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1986
- Type
- Vicarage
- Address
- The Old Vicarage, High Street, Headcorn
- OS grid reference
- TQ 833 441
- Coordinates
- 51.16761, 0.62165
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Vicarage is a vicarage that has been converted into a house, believed to have been built in 1787 by Reverend David Evans, possibly incorporating an earlier structure. The building has 19th-century alterations and additions on the left side. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond and features a plain tile roof. The property has two storeys and attics, with a plat band halfway up the ground floor of the main range and a dentilled brick eaves cornice that extends to the addition. The roof is hipped, with a brick stack on the left side and additional stacks towards each end of the main range.
The front has an irregular arrangement of four four-pane sash windows with splayed rubbed brick voussoirs, a recessed sash window at the centre of the addition, and an irregular three-window arrangement of sashes in open boxes on the main range. There are two canted bay windows on the ground floor and a slight broad round-headed central recess on the ground floor, with rubbed brick voussoirs descending to the plat band. A central 20th-century half-glazed porch is present, along with a single-storey brick lean-to at the rear of the right side. The rear wing on the right side is tile-hung on the first floor. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Old Vicarage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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