The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 January 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-lancet-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 January 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Vicarage, St. Erth
- OS grid reference
- SW 557 350
- Coordinates
- 50.16518, -5.42104
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Vicarage is a former vicarage, now a private house, dating from the early 18th century, possibly incorporating earlier walls, and extended in the 19th and 20th centuries. The front is stuccoed, while the rest of the building is constructed from killas rubble with granite dressings. It has a steep scantle slate roof with brick chimneys at the gable ends and an axial chimney over the cross wall towards the right. The building features cast-iron ogee gutters.
The original 18th-century part of the house has an L-shaped plan with four bays on the main front and a two-bay wing that returns at right angles on the right side. The 18th-century stair hall is located behind this wing. To the far left is an addition from around the 1840s, which includes a reception room at the front and an entrance hall behind it. At the rear right, there is a two-storey wing added in the 20th century.
The exterior is two-storeys high with a regular five-window south-west front. The four right-hand bays and the gable-ended wing at the far right, which has a two-window front facing left, are from the 18th century and feature early 19th-century 12-pane hornless sashes or horned copies. The bay at the far left and the fourth from the left on the ground floor are blind window openings. The only doorway is into the wing near the angle, which has a 20th-century glazed door. The left-hand return wall has a three-window entrance front with original 12-pane hornless sashes from around the 1840s and a wide doorway with a doorcase and a pair of six-panel doors. Midway along the right-hand wall is an early 18th-century 24-pane sash with wide glazing bars and some original crown glass.
Inside, the house retains many 18th-century features, including a dog-leg closed-string stair with closely-set column-turned balusters and a moulded handrail, as well as many fielded panelled doors with HL hinges. Some of the roof structure is also intact, though it was not inspected.
Local climate
The Old Vicarage receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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