The Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1987. Vicarage.

The Vicarage

WRENN ID
winter-lead-lark
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Devon
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 January 1987
Type
Vicarage
Address
The Vicarage, Lamerton
OS grid reference
SX 451 770
Coordinates
50.5723, -4.18842
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Vicarage is a house that dates from around 1840, possibly incorporating parts of an earlier building, with some 20th-century alterations. It is constructed of rubble and stucco, featuring late roofs with ridge coping and a gable stack on the right, as well as a rear lateral stack. The main part of the building is a three-bay range with a central entrance, a gable end stack to the right, and another on the ridge to the left. To the right, there is a lower two-and-a-half-storey rear service wing that forms an overall L-plan and includes a gabled porch.

The entrance in the main range likely leads to a hall, with principal rooms on either side, although a full inspection was not possible at the time of the survey in August 1985. The building has two storeys and three windows. The first floor features two two-light casements with six panes each, positioned under the eaves to the left. There is a canted bay to the right that extends through two storeys, with similar single-light casements on all three sides and a hipped roof. On the ground floor to the left, there is a four-light mullion and transom window with eight panes below and two above the transom, along with a central four-centred arched door opening that has a hood-mould and moulded spandrels, leading to half-glazed doors with margin glazing. The bay to the right has four-pane lights below the transom and two above, with scalloped slate hanging between the ground and first floor.

The right return features a gable end with chamfered edges and an external stack. The two-and-a-half-storey rear wing has three windows and a gabled porch to the left, which includes a plinth and a four-centred arched opening with a hood-mould and chamfered edges. Inside, there is a tall four-centred arched opening with a door that has raised fillets in two panels, along with sidelights and a fanlight featuring Gothic glazing. To the right, the ground floor has two 20th-century mullion and transom casements, while the first floor has three two-light casements and four flat-roofed dormers. There is also a slate-hung one-and-a-half-storey lean-to to the right, which includes a four-light multi-pane casement and a ridge stack with a cap. The rest of the building was not accessible during the survey.

Local climate

The 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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