The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1955. Vicarage.
The Old Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- haunted-stair-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1955
- Type
- Vicarage
- Address
- The Old Vicarage, 5, Church Road, North Curry
- OS grid reference
- ST 319 254
- Coordinates
- 51.02412, -2.97161
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Vicarage is a vicarage that has been converted into a private dwelling. It dates back to the 16th century and was enlarged with an additional bay to the north shortly after its original construction. In the 19th century, a south-west cross wing was added, and the original gable end was rebuilt. A single-storey corridor was also added to the center to link the wings. The building features a roughcast facade and an exposed red brick gable end on the north-east side, which has coped verges. The roof is covered with plain clay tiles, and there is a lean-to roof over the corridor. Brick stacks are located at the right junction with the cross wing and a lateral stack rises at the rear. The structure is U-shaped, facing north-west, and was originally designed with three cells and a cross passage, possibly including a smoke bay at the south-west gable end. It has two storeys with a 1:3:1 bay arrangement, where the end bays are unlit. All windows are leaded casements, and there are gabled dormers that rise through the eaves. The central entrance features a gabled top and double doors, with gabled dormers in the re-entrant angles of one bay. The interior has not been seen but is said to have been extensively altered in the late 19th century, although it retains evidence of a wind-braced, jointed cruck truss roof and one framed, arch-braced truss to the right of the cross passage.
Local climate
The Old Vicarage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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