The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. House. 1 related planning application.
The Old Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- empty-pier-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Vicarage, Clay Lane, Beaminster
- OS grid reference
- ST 476 013
- Coordinates
- 50.80974, -2.74403
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Vicarage is a single house located on Clay Lane in Beaminster, built between 1859 and 1861 by architect William White. The building features rubble-stone walls with stone quoins and a clay tile roof adorned with cresting and stone gable copings. It has an asymmetrical arrangement of stacks at the ridge, with one positioned right of center and another on the left-hand projecting gable. The structure includes four steep gables of varying heights, with the main gable projecting on the left and a smaller projecting gable on the right. There are two smaller center gables that feature plate-tracery with a quatrefoil above. The house has three storeys and approximately four stone mullioned windows. An entrance porch is located in the left gable, which has a later masking extension. The rear elevation is also asymmetrical, featuring a canted bay on the right side that is tile-hung, along with a buttress that has a long set-off.
Local climate
The Old Vicarage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 — 1 application
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