The Old Vicarage and Adjacent Gateway and Boundary Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. House. 2 related planning applications.

The Old Vicarage and Adjacent Gateway and Boundary Wall

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 April 1961
Type
House
Address
The Old Vicarage and Adjacent Gateway and Boundary Wall, 43, Bishopston, Montacute, South Somerset, TA15 6UX
OS grid reference
ST 496 169
Coordinates
50.95018, -2.71782
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Vicarage, now a house, was built in 1715 for the Reverend John Maurice. It is constructed from cut and squared ham stone with ashlar dressings and features a plain clay tiled roof between coped gables and brick chimney stacks. The building has an 'L' plan and is two storeys high with a five-bay south elevation that faces the road.

The windows are hollow-chamfered mullioned types set in chamfered recesses without labels. The upper windows are two-light with early iron-framed opening lights and sure curl stays, while the lower section has later windows designed to match, including large two-light windows between the first and second bays and the fourth and fifth bays. In the third bay, there is a doorway with an ovolo-moulded edge under a curtailed hood, featuring a six-flush-panelled door flanked by two 20th-century two-light windows. The west gables also have similar older windows, both with labels.

At the rear, there is a return wing with 18th-century casement windows and a lean-to extension. Approximately 300mm from the south-west corner of the house is a gateway with square stone piers topped with cornice caps and block step and ball finials. The adjoining wall is about 900mm high to the south and 1.5m high to the north, extending eastwards along Middle Street to mark the southern boundary. This wall is mostly made of uncoursed rubble with simple ashlar copings, enhancing the setting of the house and the streetscape in this corner position.

A faculty was granted to demolish the house in 1828, as it was reported to be "very dilapidated," but this was never carried out, and it ceased to function as a vicarage that same year.

Local climate

The Old Vicarage and Adjacent Gateway and Boundary Wall receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% 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 63% 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 — 1 transaction since 2019
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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