The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1985. House. 4 related planning applications.
The Old Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-arch-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Vicarage, Thame Road, Chilton, HP18 9LT
- OS grid reference
- SP 688 113
- Coordinates
- 51.79643, -1.00334
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Vicarage is a house dating back to the 17th century, significantly altered and refronted in the early 18th century, with further changes around 1820 and in the mid-19th century. The building is primarily brick to the front, with stone and brick dressings on the sides, some 19th-century brickwork to the right, and timber framing visible internally. The rear has an old tile roof, while the main part of the building features a hipped slate roof dating from around 1820.
The main east front has two wide bays. A taller, gabled bay was added in the mid-19th century. The ground floor has two box sash windows on either side of a blocked central doorway, with a band course above. Five first-floor box sash windows are present, the second, fourth, and fifth windows having thick, early 18th-century glazing bars and segmental arches. A moulded timber cornice runs along the top. A central stack is a feature, and the house was formerly designed with a lobby entry plan. The mid-19th century bay has a later two-storey canted bay window and polychrome brickwork. A lean-to porch with a slate roof shelters the south-facing entrance, which is accessed through sash windows.
Inside, rooms on the ground and first floors of the 17th-century range retain early 17th-century panelling. A ground-floor overmantel bears arcaded panels featuring an inscription, 'Virtutis Amore'. Furthermore, stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops and a cross beam are present in the right-hand ground floor room. Timber framing is visible in the rear wall of the front range and in the north-west service wing.
Local climate
The Old Vicarage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 2003
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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