The Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1987. Vicarage. 2 related planning applications.
The Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- bitter-chimney-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1987
- Type
- Vicarage
- Address
- The Vicarage, High Street, Chewton Mendip, BA3 4LJ
- OS grid reference
- ST 597 530
- Coordinates
- 51.2754, -2.57893
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Vicarage is an early 19th-century vicarage located on the west side of High Street in Chewton Mendip. It features a smooth rendered and colorwashed exterior, topped with a hipped slate roof that has wide eaves. The building has two low ashlar stacks with crenellated chimneypots. The front is symmetrical, consisting of two storeys and three bays, with 16-pane sash windows set in plain freestone surrounds. The central entrance has a semi-circular head and is framed by a bead-moulded freestone surround. It includes a recessed six-panel door and a fanlight with radiating glazing bars.
Local climate
The Vicarage receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 7 transactions since 1995
- 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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