The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 1988. Former vicarage. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- sheer-cornice-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 February 1988
- Type
- Former vicarage
- Address
- The Old Vicarage, Luckington, SN14 6NL
- OS grid reference
- ST 841 830
- Coordinates
- 51.5461, -2.2302
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Vicarage is a former vicarage built around 1840 by James Thomson for Joseph Neeld of Grittleton. It features squared rubble stone with ashlar dressings and stone slate roofs. The building is two storeys high and designed in a picturesque Tudor style, with flush stone-mullion windows and round-headed lights on the casements. The symmetrical north front has three windows, a raised plinth, a first-floor string, and the upper floor slightly set back.
A centre projecting porch gable has walling that is also slightly projected, with two-light windows on each side. The lower windows have deep bead-moulded hoodmoulds. The porch bay includes a Tudor-arched entry and hoodmould, an ashlar upper floor, and a canted oriel with narrow sidelights. There are panels below the lights, with the front panel featuring a blank shield.
The west end has a stack, while the east end showcases a large square ashlar bay, with the stone roof linked to a small first-floor oriel. The parallel rear range includes a large added bay and oriel at the east end, and a west end stack with a two-light window on each floor in the chimney projection. A large mullion and transom stair-light is positioned between the two west gables. There is a smaller parallel gable to the right and a single-storey outbuilding that connects to a Bridgwater-tiled stable and coach-house. According to J. Thomson's unpublished work from 1845, the house was described as a parsonage for a moderate incumbency, containing two parlours, a study, two bedrooms, a kitchen, offices, a chaise-house, and stables.
Local climate
The Old Vicarage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 2002
- 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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