St Margarets House the Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1985. Vicarage.
St Margarets House the Old Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- half-timber-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1985
- Type
- Vicarage
- Address
- St Margarets House the Old Vicarage, the Street, Mapledurham
- OS grid reference
- SU 670 767
- Coordinates
- 51.48605, -1.03638
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Vicarage, now known as St Margarets House, is a vicarage that dates from around 1830. It is constructed of colourwashed red brick and features a slate hipped roof with lead ridges and a central brick ridge stack. The garden front has two storeys and a three-window range, with a central blind recessed panel. There are glazed double-leaf doors on both the left and right sides. A brick band runs between the ground and first floors, and there is another central blind recessed panel on the first floor, flanked by paired 8-pane sash windows.
Inside, there is an open well staircase with a Doric column screen leading to the hall. The original marble fireplaces remain in the study and sitting room on the ground floor. There is also an attached former servants' wing that has been converted into a house. The building was constructed around 1830 at the expense of William IV for his son, Lord Augustus Fitzclarence.
Local climate
St Margarets House 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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