The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 2002. House.
The Old Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- tattered-lead-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Flintshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 January 2002
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Vicarage, Rhosesmor, Holywell, Halkyn
- OS grid reference
- SJ 214 692
- Coordinates
- 53.21483, -3.17786
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Old Vicarage is a domestic Gothic style house built from snecked rock-faced stone, featuring yellow freestone dressings and gables, topped with a slate roof that has overhanging bracketed eaves and brick ridge stacks on the main gabled bays. The front of the house is symmetrical with three bays, including outer gabled bays that have ball finials. String courses at impost level extend over the windows as hood moulds. The windows feature cusped lights with transoms.
The central doorway is framed by a projecting ashlar surround topped with a castellated parapet. It has a Tudor arch and double fielded-panel doors that include narrow pointed glazed panels. Above the doorway, there is a three-light window. The lower storey features outer bays with two-light canted bay windows, while the upper storey has three-light windows set under relieving arches, along with blind ventilation strips in the gables that have sill bands.
On the left side wall, there are two cross windows with cusped lights, the right-hand window having a relieving arch and a string course above the lintel. A cross window with plain pointed lights is located in the upper left, below a two-light window in a gabled attic storey at the rear of the house. A lower service wing is situated behind. The right side wall mirrors the left side and has a service yard wall attached to the rear angle, which includes a small former coach house.
The rear of the house features a central projecting bay with a three-light mullioned and transomed stair window, which has an additional fourth light above the transom. Below this window are lintelled sash windows, and above it is an added skylight. The gable end of the service wing contains three lintelled two-pane sash windows in the lower storey and two similar windows above.
Local climate
The Old Vicarage receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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