Former Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 February 1985. Vicarage.
Former Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- salt-lintel-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 February 1985
- Type
- Vicarage
- Address
- Former Vicarage, Tapp's Hotel, Sherborne Road, Milborne Port
- OS grid reference
- ST 674 185
- Coordinates
- 50.96564, -2.46498
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former vicarage, now a hotel, was built in 1870 and designed by Henry Hall. It is constructed from local stone that is cut and squared, with ashlar dressings. The roof is made of plain clay tiles and features coped gables, along with ashlar stone chimney stacks, some of which are octagonal and all have moulded caps. The building has a closed 'U'-plan and consists of two storeys, an attic, and a basement.
The north elevation has three gabled bays, with the central bay recessed and featuring a projecting flat-roofed porch. This porch has a moulded flat-headed archway with two stone-carved panels above, including an upper circular panel with a shield and the inscription "Wilborne Port Sigillum." The first and third bays have projecting chimney stacks and attic windows. The south garden elevation also has three bays, with a plinth and a string course between the floors. It features chamfered mullioned and transomed windows, a two-storey angled bay window in the first bay, and a single-storey bay window in the third bay, with no window in the lower second bay. The outer gables have attic windows, and the central dormer has elaborate bargeboards. Other elevations are designed to match.
The main rooms on the ground floor have seen little alteration. The building is significant in its context with the nearby church and school, as well as sharing the same designer.
Local climate
Former Vicarage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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