The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 November 1966. Vicarage, house. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- brooding-pavement-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 November 1966
- Type
- Vicarage, house
- Address
- The Old Vicarage, Ashbury, SN6 8LZ
- OS grid reference
- SU 265 849
- Coordinates
- 51.56293, -1.61834
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Vicarage is a vicarage that has been converted into a house. It dates from the mid to late 17th century and was extended around 1805. The original 17th-century building is constructed from squared and coursed chalk, while the early 19th-century extension is made of rendered chalk block with brick dressings. The roof is slate, and there are roughcast stacks.
The building has a complex plan, featuring a three-storey section from the 17th century and a two-storey, three-window range extension from the early 19th century. The extension has a central six-panelled door with a scrolled pediment and a Doric portico, which was built by Sir William Cash in 1936. There are rubbed brick arches above the sash windows and brick double pilaster strips at the quoins. The eaves and verge are modillioned, and the roof is hipped with ridge stacks.
To the right, there is a two-storey, three-bay service wing that was substantially rebuilt around 1974 in Flemish bond brick, featuring 20th-century sash windows. The 17th-century building has flat chalk arches with voussoirs over the original leaded lights, retaining all its fittings. The interior has not been inspected but is noted to include shutters and doors, moulded cornices, and fireplaces.
Local climate
The Old Vicarage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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