The Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1955. Vicarage. 6 related planning applications.
The Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- cold-gateway-furze
- 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 Vicarage, Church Lane, Ruishton, TA3 5LL
- OS grid reference
- ST 263 251
- Coordinates
- 51.02073, -3.05163
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Vicarage is an early 19th-century vicarage, altered in the mid-20th century. It is constructed with a rubble core, rendered over, and features pilaster quoins. The building has a hipped roof covered in asbestos slate, overhanging eaves, a soffit board, and rendered stacks on the returns. It is a double pile building, with two storeys and three bays. The first floor has 12-pane sash windows, while the ground floor has 16-pane sash windows framing a semi-circular recessed doorway. This doorway contains a double 6-panel door, an Adam-style fanlight, and a contemporary bell pull and knocker. A 20th-century irregular five-bay verandah, with a lean-to glazed roof supported by wooden columns, extends across the front. 20th-century metal casement windows are present on the right return and at the rear. A photograph of the property is held within the National Monuments Record.
Local climate
The Vicarage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2011
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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