The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. House.

The Old Vicarage

WRENN ID
tattered-granite-crow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Oxfordshire
Constituency
Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
The Old Vicarage, Church Road, North Leigh
OS grid reference
SP 387 136
Coordinates
51.81985, -1.43945
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Vicarage is a house that was originally a vicarage, built in the late 17th century and rebuilt around 1726. It features squared and coursed limestone construction with a gabled stone slate roof and moulded stone end stacks. The building is designed in an L-shape with a rear right wing and has two storeys plus an attic, presenting a symmetrical five-window facade. The entrance includes a 20th-century door with an overlight, and there are 17th-century carved stone brackets supporting a flat hood over chamfered stone-mullioned and transomed cross windows. A raised string course and gabled roof dormers add to the architectural detail. To the right, there is an outshut with a stone slate roof. At the rear, a late 18th-century two-storey wing and an outshut with a concrete tile roof can be found. Inside, there is a fine early 18th-century dog-leg staircase with winders and turned balusters set on a closed string, as well as an early 19th-century marble fireplace on the left. The building was reported as "decayed and ruinous" at the time of its rebuilding in 1726.

Local climate

The Old Vicarage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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