The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1977. Vicarage. 1 related planning application.

The Old Vicarage

WRENN ID
fading-jamb-swallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 March 1977
Type
Vicarage
Address
The Old Vicarage, Church Street, Wedmore, BS28 4AA
OS grid reference
ST 434 478
Coordinates
51.22718, -2.81124
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Vicarage is a vicarage that has been converted into a house. It was established in the 15th century, with significant rebuilding in the 17th century and further modifications in the 19th century. The building features painted rubble walls and a slate roof, with a coped verge on the left and brick stacks. The central gabled block has a wing projecting on each side, with the central portion thought to be the remnants of an open hall. It is two storeys tall and has a layout of three bays, one bay, and two bays. The windows include some 12-pane casements and sash windows with glazing bars, as well as a Venetian window with ten lights in the first floor of the central bay. There is a gothic window with a pointed arch on the left side of the central wing. The door opening to the left has a plank door with a transom light featuring glazing bars and a flat hood supported by moulded brackets. There is another door opening on the right side of the projecting wing. The garden front is uniform with six bays, a hipped roof, and sash windows with glazing bars. The interior is mostly from the 19th century, with some 20th-century alterations and fragmentary remains of a 17th-century roof in the central wing. The site is believed to be on an ancient Saxon location.

Local climate

The Old Vicarage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 1998
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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