The Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1984. Vicarage. 3 related planning applications.

The Vicarage

WRENN ID
buried-entrance-clover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 December 1984
Type
Vicarage
Address
The Vicarage, Higher Street, Bridport, DT6 3JA
OS grid reference
SY 481 943
Coordinates
50.74663, -2.73686
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Vicarage is a detached vicarage built around 1845. It features ashlar stone walls and a slate roof with stone gable copings and roll-moulded edges. The building has large moulded kneelers and two stone stacks that are hidden in the valley of the roof. It is a double-pile house with two storeys and three sash windows that have glazing bars and marginal glazing bars. All windows are adorned with returned labels and have chamfered-and-quirked jambs, along with stone cills. The front door is centrally located and has a 4-centred head with hollow chamfered jambs, a rectangular top light with four lights, and a returned label above. The door itself is a plank door with recessed panels. To the left, there is an attached wing at an oblique angle, which has rubble stone walls and a slate roof. This wing also has two storeys and two windows featuring two-light wooden casements with glazing bars. A brick porch is positioned to the right of the centre.

Local climate

The Vicarage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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