Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1958. Vicarage.
Old Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- hushed-string-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1958
- Type
- Vicarage
- Address
- Old Vicarage, Langcliffe, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SD 821 650
- Coordinates
- 54.08123, -2.27365
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Vicarage is a former vicarage, now a house, dating from the 17th century with 19th-century alterations. It features rendered walls with painted stone dressings and a stone slate roof. The building has two storeys and four bays. The double entrance is located in the third bay and is covered by a decorated lintel (now rendered) and a hoodmould. The left-hand entrance has 19th-century French windows, each with four panes and pointed arched heads, while the right-hand door is from the 20th century. Above the entrance is a painted sundial with a gnomon.
On the ground floor to the right of the entrance is a three-light chamfered window with a hoodmould that has circular stops incised with a spiral. To the left of the entrance are a three-light and a four-light cavetto mullioned window, both with a continuous hoodmould. All four upper floor windows are mullioned with three lights. The first bay features double chamfered windows with cavetto mullions on square stools, the second bay has chamfered mullions, the third bay is likely a 19th-century addition in a 17th-century style with double chamfered cavetto mullions, and the fourth bay has double chamfered windows with a square stool under the right-hand mullion. There is a gable-end ridge stack and a ridge stack to the left of the second bay.
The vicarage was occupied by William Paley (1743 - 1805), who was the Archdeacon of Carlisle and the author of "Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy" (1785) and "Evidences of Christianity" (1794).
Local climate
Old Vicarage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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