The Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1965. Vicarage.

The Vicarage

WRENN ID
little-hall-swallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 August 1965
Type
Vicarage
Address
The Vicarage, Poughill
OS grid reference
SS 856 084
Coordinates
50.86435, -3.62635
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Vicarage is a vicarage built around 1840. It features plastered rubble construction, with rubble and brick stacks, and a slate roof. The main block is two rooms deep and faces south, designed with a central staircase plan and end stacks. There is a service wing under a parallel roof, offset to the left (west), which has a gable end stack. The building is two storeys high with attics and showcases a Gothick style.

The gable-ended main block has a symmetrical three-window front. The central Gothick door, which has lower pointed arch panels, is flanked by three pointed lancets and is set in an arch-headed doorway that includes a fanlight with a Gothick pattern of glazing bars. A 20th-century gabled porch has been added. The ground floor windows are 20th-century casements, while the first floor retains original pointed arch-headed casements with Gothick glazing bars at the top. There is a similar window on the first floor of the service wing and smaller versions in the left end of the main block leading to the first floor and attic. The ground floor windows are rectangular casements with small rectangular panes of glass. The rear of the building features more pointed arch Gothick windows, including a stair window with margin panes and coloured glass. The eaves are deep all around and supported by pairs of shaped brackets. Inside, some original joinery and plasterwork remain.

Local climate

The Vicarage receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% 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 72% 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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