The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 1953. Vicarage.

The Old Vicarage

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 January 1953
Type
Vicarage
Address
The Old Vicarage, Meifod
OS grid reference
SJ 150 137
Coordinates
52.71455, -3.25868
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Old Vicarage is a two-storey building with attics, constructed from rubble stone and featuring a brick facade that is rendered on the eastern gable end, topped with a slate roof. The house was widened in the early 19th century to enhance domestic facilities and has a further one-and-a-half storey extension at the rear that includes a larder and a servants' room. There is also a small single-storey wing with a service entrance.

The layout consists of a central wide entrance hall with a staircase leading to the rear, flanked by reception rooms. The building has gable stacks and is five window bays wide, with a central gable. The brickwork is colourwashed in Montgomery cream and features central and high-level plat bands. The central glazed door is set within a moulded architrave and is accessed by three semi-circular steps that rise from the former carriage drive at the front. Above the door are twelve-paned sash windows in raised frames with stone sills. On either side of the central bay are narrow recessed panels, while the side bays also have twelve-paned sashes with heavy glazing bars and some original glass, all within openings that have one-and-a-half brick flat arches. The eaves are open, and there are two small 19th-century dormers. An attic window in the gable features nine-pane single hung sashes, and the gables are coped on ogee cut kneelers.

There is a secondary entrance, which is now the main entrance, featuring a boarded door and a stone and slated open porch at the side. Inside, there is a fine dog leg stair with turned balusters, which is doubled at the foot. The layout was otherwise altered in the 19th century, with the main drawing room relocated to the first floor, and the windows have panelled reveals.

Local climate

The Old Vicarage receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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