The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 April 1988. Vicarage. 6 related planning applications.
The Old Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- other-cupola-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 April 1988
- Type
- Vicarage
- Address
- The Old Vicarage, Lanhydrock, PL30 5AD
- OS grid reference
- SX 081 635
- Coordinates
- 50.43995, -4.70344
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Vicarage is a vicarage, now a house, built around 1845 with 20th-century alterations. It is constructed of stone rubble, rendered and lined out, and features a hipped slate roof with deep eaves. The building has an axial stack and a stack on the left side, both with rendered shafts. The plan is double depth, with a central entrance and principal rooms located to the front right and left. The stair hall is situated to the centre left, with additional rooms facing the garden along the right side and rear. A large two-storey service wing is attached to the rear left.
The exterior is two storeys high and has a symmetrical three-window front. All windows are 19th-century 16-pane sashes, and there is a cornice on consoles at the ground floor. The central entrance features a nine-panelled door with a cornice on consoles above. The building has a plinth and a band course. On the right side, there are three 20-pane sashes with a cornice on consoles at the ground floor and three 16-pane sashes on the first floor. The left side has a central 24-pane sash with a round head, margin glazing, and splayed glazing bars that lights the stair. There is a ground floor 16-pane sash and a first floor 9-pane sash. The service wing is two storeys tall, with two 16-pane sashes and a central blind window on the first floor, while the ground floor has a single-storey lean-to with sashes and a 20th-century half-glazed door. The rear has three windows: a 20-pane sash to the left, a blind central window, and a 16-pane sash to the right. The first floor has two 16-pane sashes to the right and a blind window to the left. The service wing is slightly set forward to the right and consists of four bays with sashes.
The interior has not been inspected, but there are panelled shutters on the ground floor windows and panelled doors. There may be other features, such as a good staircase. The vicarage was built for The Reverend Charles Grylls, the first vicar after Lanhydrock was established as a regular parish by Bishop Philpotts of Exeter in 1844.
Local climate
The Old Vicarage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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