The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1988. Vicarage. 5 related planning applications.
The Old Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- western-spindle-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- Stroud MP: Dr Simon Opher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1988
- Type
- Vicarage
- Address
- The Old Vicarage, Horsley, GL6 0PJ
- OS grid reference
- ST 843 987
- Coordinates
- 51.68764, -2.2281
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Vicarage is a former vicarage, now a detached house, dating from the mid-to-late 18th century, with an enlargement in the early 19th century. It is constructed of coursed rubble and dressed limestone, with ashlar chimneys and a stone slate roof. The building is two storeys high with an attic. The earliest part of the house is located on the right-hand side and is constructed of coursed rubble, featuring two-light chamfered mullioned casement windows – two to the ground floor and three to the upper floor, all with combining hoodmoulds. A larger addition to the left is built of dressed limestone and features a mixed arrangement of windows, including two-light stone-mullioned casements and 16-pane sash windows. A gabled porch with a six-panel door sits to the right of the doorway. There are three gabled roof dormers with timber casements in the eaves, and three ridge chimneys, one featuring a moulded cap. The interior of the house has not been inspected. The building was formerly the home of Thomas Dudley Fosbrooke, the county historian and vicar of the parish from 1794 to 1811.
Local climate
The Old Vicarage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 2 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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