The Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1989. A C19 Vicarage. 1 related planning application.
The Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- twisted-chalk-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1989
- Type
- Vicarage
- Address
- The Vicarage, Leyland Cross, Bradworthy, EX22 7RJ
- OS grid reference
- SS 326 136
- Coordinates
- 50.89762, -4.38159
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Vicarage is a vicarage built in the early 19th century, with a porch that was enclosed in the late 19th century. The building features roughcast over random rubble, a slate roof, boxed eaves, and roughcast stacks at the gable ends and at the gable end of the service wing. It is designed in an L-plan.
On the south front, the building has two storeys and two bays. There is a cornice and a full-height pilaster quoin on the right side of the facade, while the left side is unadorned, and there is a continuous plinth. The left side features a full-height canted bay with 12-pane sash windows, and there is a 12-pane sash window on the right, all of which have horns. The ground floor has a similar arrangement, but only the left-hand window of the bay has horns.
The right return, or entrance front (east), includes a 6-pane sash window in the apex of the gable and a 16-pane sash window lighting the stairs, which is set over the entrance on the right side of an otherwise unlit facade. The entrance is accessed via a Tuscan Doric porch, with columns resting on concrete plinths and glazed returns on a concrete base. The porch has fixed lights arranged in a 3 x 4 pattern, and the entrance features a rectangular light and a half-glazed door with marginal glazing bars and 3 x 4 panes, along with three panels in the lower section of the door, which is diagonally boarded with chamfered arrises. The inner door has not been seen.
The wing to the right has two storeys and one bay, featuring 16-pane sash windows, with the ground floor window rising at ground level with a step. The interior has not been seen, but original shutters remain on the ground floor windows. The living was in the gift of the Crown.
Local climate
The Vicarage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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