The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1985. House. 7 related planning applications.
The Old Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- sunken-rampart-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 November 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Vicarage, Marystow, PL16 0JA
- OS grid reference
- SX 433 827
- Coordinates
- 50.62376, -4.21578
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Vicarage is a house that was formerly a vicarage, featuring a core from the 17th century with significant remodelling in the late 18th century and a wing added around the mid-19th century. The building is constructed of stone rubble, which is whitewashed and rendered on the main part, while the front was originally slate-hung. The 19th-century wing has brick dressings. The roofs are slate, hipped at the ends, with the main range painted in bitumen. There is one large chimney stack at the rear of the main range and a brick stack for the wing.
The original 17th-century layout has been largely obscured by later changes but likely featured a through passage plan with one lateral and one gable end stack, the latter of which has been dismantled. In the 18th century, the house was extended at the front and re-roofed, while still retaining a wide through passage. The mid-19th-century wing was added to the right end, projecting to the rear and creating an L-shape.
The building has two storeys and presents a long, asymmetrical eight-bay garden front, with the two right-hand bays set back in the 19th-century wing. The six-bay main range facade includes a flat-roofed 20th-century porch at the fourth bay and a half-glazed wide front door from the late 18th century, featuring thick glazing bars. The windows on the main range facade are 12-pane boxed late 18th-century hornless sashes, mostly with crown glass. The wing has three 19th-century sashes and one 20th-century sash, all with glazing bars.
Inside, the 18th-century joinery includes two-panel and six-panel doors. Two first-floor rooms feature 18th-century panelling and panelled dados. The 18th-century staircase has turned balusters and was repaired and extended in the late 20th century.
Local climate
The Old Vicarage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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