The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 March 1994. Vicarage.

The Old Vicarage

WRENN ID
crooked-stronghold-dew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Constituency
Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
2 March 1994
Type
Vicarage
Address
The Old Vicarage, Cenarth
OS grid reference
SN 275 413
Coordinates
52.04385, -4.51616
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Old Vicarage is a former vicarage built in 1855, constructed from coursed grey Cilgerran stone with cut-stone dressings and a slate roof that features deep eaves. The building has a square plan, with a basement, two storeys, and an attic. It has two truncated side-wall stacks and broad east and west gables adorned with large fretted bargeboards. The south entrance front is largely decorative, featuring a porch.

The south front includes two long false windows set in chamfered pointed recesses with cusped heads and similar chamfered pointed surrounds. These windows have marginal glazing bars and a transom. The central porch has a coped shouldered gable topped with a medieval cross finial, likely from the east gable of the former church. The porch features a chamfered Tudor-arched entry accessed by three slate steps, a roughcast interior, and a large four-panel door with a Gothic-traceried overlight. There is also a stained glass panel depicting an eye in a triangle. Above the porch, a projecting chimney steps in twice to the base of a removed shaft, with a reset plaque from 1855. A small window with marginal glazing bars is located in the first-floor chimney projection.

On the west garden front, there are small-paned timber mullion and transom windows on the main floor, featuring chamfered surrounds, stone voussoirs to flat heads, and relieving arches. The basement has a stone plinth, with a three-light window to the ground floor on the left, a large canted bay window on the right, and two three-light windows on the first floor. The attic contains two pointed windows, one of which retains its original small panes. The north side features a centrally projecting chimney breast with a truncated stack. The east side, facing the rear court, has a three-bay front with windows similar to those on the west, including a two-light window, a door, and a three-light window on the ground floor, two two-light windows and one three-light window on the first floor, and a pair of attic casements in the centre with a single light on each side.

Inside, there is a cross-passage from south to north, featuring a Tudor arch supported by two medieval-style carved heads, which are said to have come from the old church but may be made of plaster. The two west rooms have slate Gothic fireplaces, with the southwest room having a more elaborate design and folding shutters. A staircase located in the centre of the east side leads to the first-floor landing and continues to the attic. The building also has extensive cellars with a central well, and the former kitchen is located in the northwest basement.

Local climate

The Old Vicarage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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