The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1987. House. 4 related planning applications.
The Old Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- tall-flint-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Vicarage, 4, Main Street, Ash, TA12 6NS
- OS grid reference
- ST 472 207
- Coordinates
- 50.98339, -2.75217
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Vicarage is a detached house located at No. 4 Main Street, built around 1841, likely designed by architect Samson Kempthorne, who also designed the Church of the Holy Trinity. The building is constructed of Ham stone in a near-ashlar style and features a hipped Welsh slate roof with stone slab chimney stacks. It has a double roof plan and stands two storeys high with a layout of three bays by three bays.
The entrance is situated on the east elevation, which includes two slim attic casement windows located just under the eaves. There are two projecting chimney stacks, and between them is a classically detailed projecting porch that has a plinth, string course, and a parapet with simple coping. The porch features a window in the south wall and a six-panel door in the east wall, all framed by a stone keystoned architrave with a pediment. The south elevation displays 12-pane sash windows, although there is no window in the lower bay of the second column. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
The Old Vicarage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2012
- 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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