The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1984. Vicarage, house.
The Old Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-timber-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- North Somerset MP: Sadik Al-Hassan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1984
- Type
- Vicarage, house
- Address
- The Old Vicarage, Portbury
- OS grid reference
- ST 502 752
- Coordinates
- 51.47388, -2.717
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Vicarage is a vicarage that has been converted into a private house, built around 1840. It features coursed rubble with freestone dressings and has a slate roof behind a parapet, which includes a moulded cornice, pinnacles, and finials. The building is designed in a Tudor Gothic style and has an L-plan with a gabled cross wing to the right. It stands two storeys high with attics and has three bays, featuring single and two-light casement windows with cusped ogee-headed tracery and square hoodmoulds.
An ashlar porch is located in the re-entrant angle, adorned with an embattled parapet and an octagonal pinnacle on the left side. The doorway is chamfered with a 4-centred head and a panelled door. The cross wing is accentuated by octagonal ashlar corner turrets that end in decorative pinnacles. The ground floor includes a 1:3:1 light bay window, while the attic features a circular window with decorated tracery. The east gable end showcases a two-storey canted bay window with a plain parapet.
Local climate
The Old Vicarage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1998
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