The Vicarage is a Grade II* listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 October 1953. A C18 House. 2 related planning applications.

The Vicarage

WRENN ID
under-pillar-grain
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
26 October 1953
Type
House
Address
The Vicarage, Berriew, SY21 8PL
OS grid reference
SJ 186 009
Coordinates
52.60039, -3.20204
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Vicarage is a Grade II* listed building featuring a timber frame with plaster panel infill over wattle and daub, topped with a graded slate roof. The structure has close-studded framing with tension bracing and middle rails, and a moulded bressumer supports the jettied upper storey. There is a timber framed outshut, which may be an original feature. The central porch is storeyed, with moulded jambs framing the doorway, and open mullioned windows on either side. The upper section of the porch has decorative framing with cusped quatrefoils, and the tie-beam of the gable displays the date and initials T.K.

On each floor, there are 3-light casement windows with leaded lights and central wrought iron opening casements. Although these windows have been renewed, they likely replaced late 18th-century windows, possibly when a brick extension was added to the left. The brick extension, which was formerly painted, features a single 3-light iron casement window on each floor, both with cambered brick heads.

Internally, the house underwent modifications in the late 18th to early 19th century, including the removal of an earlier central stack. The current staircase has plain spindles and a swept rail. The principal rooms on the ground floor boast stop-chamfered spine beams, while similar plain chamfered beams are found on the first floor. The attic storey includes wind-braces to the purlins in the outer bays of the roof. Many internal fittings date from the 1930s, when several chimney pieces were added, salvaged from other locations. This includes two bolection moulded fireplace surrounds with overmantles, likely of early 18th-century origin, and an overmantle made from 17th-century wall-panelling.

Local climate

The Vicarage receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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