The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1984. House, former vicarage. 1 related planning application.

The Old Vicarage

WRENN ID
outer-storey-wind
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Devon
Constituency
Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 October 1984
Type
House, former vicarage
Address
The Old Vicarage, High Street, Stoke Canon, EX5 4AS
OS grid reference
SX 939 979
Coordinates
50.77156, -3.50594
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Vicarage is a house, formerly serving as the vicarage, built between 1848 and 1851 by St Aubyn. It is constructed from dressed and coursed Thorverton stone and features a slate gabled-end roof. The building has an L-shaped plan with a front wing and is two stories high, accompanied by a single-storey kitchen block at the left-hand end.

The front elevation is asymmetrical with four bays. The left-hand bay projects as a gabled wing, featuring a six-light window on each floor and a large external lateral stack with a wing front. The right-hand bay is marked by a prominent lateral external stack with weatherings, both stacks topped with moulded brick Tudor-style chimneys. The two central bays are each topped with a small gable that contains a small window, with brick infill. Asymmetrically placed leaded windows include a tall stair window with leaded panes to the left of the main entrance, which is framed by a pointed single-chamfered stone arch. The kitchen block has a large end stack similar to the others.

The rear elevation consists of four separately gabled bays, with the end bays taller than the central pair. It features four leaded windows on the ground floor, comprising two, three, and four-light designs, and four two- and three-light windows above. The casements have largely been renewed. The building is bargeboarded throughout, with small pendants at the apexes of the gables. Inside, the main right-hand room boasts an elaborate stone chimney piece, with the lintel supported by a frieze of shields and fleurons in concave moulding. Note that the replica Georgian terrace balustrading on each side of the house is not included in the listed description.

Local climate

The Old Vicarage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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