The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 April 1959. A Georgian Vicarage. 2 related planning applications.

The Old Vicarage

WRENN ID
veiled-moulding-crimson
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Exmoor National Park
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 April 1959
Type
Vicarage
Period
Georgian
Address
The Old Vicarage, Winsford, Somerset, TA22 9NN
OS grid reference
SS 905 351
Coordinates
51.10552, -3.5654
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Vicarage is a former vicarage now serving as a private dwelling. It dates from the 16th to 17th century and was enlarged in the early to mid-19th century. The building features roughcast over rubble and has an asbestos slate roof that is hipped at the 19th-century addition. The roof includes soffit boards and paired brackets, with roughcast stacks located on the external right gable end, center left, and left on the 19th-century addition.

The structure has an L-plan layout, with the original two-cell dwelling oriented north-south and the 19th-century addition extending west from the south end. The east front is two storeys high and consists of five bays arranged in an irregular pattern. The left three bays project slightly forward and contain 12 and 16-pane sash windows. To the right, there are two 16-pane sashes, and on the ground floor, there is a flat-roofed canted bay with two 15-pane sash windows at its center, with similar windows on the angled returns. To the right of the canted bay, there is a 12-pane window on the left and a tripartite 16-pane sash window to the right of a six-panelled door, which has panelled reveals and a pentice porch suspended by chains.

The long left return features a lower service wing at the rear, with a canted bay on the ground floor and a blind semi-circular headed niche on the first floor right, flanked by sash windows. The interior has not been seen but is said to contain moulded ceiling beams.

Local climate

The Old Vicarage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2008
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
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  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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