The Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. Vicarage.
The Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- western-rotunda-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Vicarage
- Address
- The Vicarage, Calf Street, Great Torrington
- OS grid reference
- SS 495 192
- Coordinates
- 50.95312, -4.14299
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Vicarage is a building with late 18th century origins in its rear block, while the front block, which faces the garden, was constructed in 1844 for the Reverend Samuel Buckland. The structure features rendered walls and brick and rendered stacks beneath a Welsh slate roof with projecting eaves at the front. It has an L-plan layout with a rear left wing and stands two storeys tall. The garden front has a 1:2-window arrangement with a projecting left-hand gable. On the ground floor, there are 6/9-pane sash windows to the right of the porch, which is framed by pilasters and includes a panelled door with an overlight and flanking narrow lights. A plain balustrade with wrought-ironwork fronts the porch. Above the porch, there is a 6/9-pane sash, and to the right, a 6/6-pane sash. The left-hand gable features a small 4-pane casement at the apex, a 6/6-pane sash on the first floor, and a canted bay with a slate roof and similar sashes. The other elevations and the rear wing also have similar 6/6-pane sashes. Inside, the property is noted for its mid-19th century joinery, an open-well staircase with stick balusters, enriched and moulded cornicing, and classical fireplaces made of wood and marble. The rear wing retains some 18th century panelled doors.
Local climate
The Vicarage receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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