The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Mole Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 2002. Vicarage.
The Old Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- vast-bonework-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mole Valley
- Constituency
- Dorking and Horley MP: Chris Coghlan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 August 2002
- Type
- Vicarage
- Address
- The Old Vicarage, St Paul's Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 166 489
- Coordinates
- 51.22748, -0.33056
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Vicarage is a vicarage that has been converted into a house, built around 1857 and designed by Benjamin Ferrey. There is a one-bay extension in a matching style that likely dates from around 1870, along with later 19th-century extensions, including a large bay window on the south side and a bathroom extension at the rear. The building is in the Gothic style and constructed of red brick in Flemish bond with a grey brick diaper pattern. The roof has been renewed, replacing the original fishscale tiles and cresting, and features four brick chimneystacks.
The main front, which faces west, is two storeys high and consists of three bays, with the right-hand bay being an addition made before 1870. The right side has a projecting gable with arched braced bargeboards and timber framing with herringbone brick infill, while the other bays have smaller gables. The grey brick diaper patterning is complemented by a band of brick quatrefoils between the floors. The windows are wooden casements with mullions and transoms, including a splayed bay on the ground floor to the right and a penticed porch with wooden doors. The south elevation features a central projecting brick chimneystack, three first-floor windows, and two ground-floor windows, which include a late 19th-century six-light square bay. The ground floor also has a later 19th-century splayed bay with a stone roof. The north elevation has a gable with bargeboards and a casement window, along with a one-storey attached service building. The rear elevation includes a late 19th-century two-storey gabled bathroom wing and a small flat-roofed extension from the late 20th century.
Inside, there is a staircase with a mahogany handrail and moulded balusters, a tiled and cast iron fireplace in the lounge, a late 19th-century bolection-moulded fireplace, and a series of cast iron fireplaces on the first floor.
Historically, St Paul's Church was also designed by Benjamin Ferrey. A print from 1857 shows the vicarage without the northernmost bay, which is depicted on the Ordnance Survey map from 1870.
Local climate
The Old Vicarage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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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