The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 August 1965. A C19 Vicarage.
The Old Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- dusk-gargoyle-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 August 1965
- Type
- Vicarage
- Address
- The Old Vicarage, Iford, Lewes
- OS grid reference
- TQ 404 072
- Coordinates
- 50.84774, -0.00582
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Vicarage, built by the Reverend M H Donald around 1822, is a square house with two storeys and three windows on each front. The exterior is stuccoed and features a stringcourse and an eaves cornice, topped with a slate roof. The windows retain their glazing bars and have Venetian shutters on the first floor. There is a small porch on the north-east front and a veranda on the ground floor of the south-east front. Additionally, there is a recessed service wing to the north-west, which has three storeys and contributes to a total of six windows facing south-west.
Local climate
The Old Vicarage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 2022
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