United Reformed Church is a Grade II listed building in the Hartlepool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1949. Church. 1 related planning application.
United Reformed Church
- WRENN ID
- sheer-postern-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hartlepool
- Constituency
- Hartlepool MP: Mr Jonathan Brash (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1949
- Type
- Church
- Address
- United Reformed Church, Durham Street, Headland, TS24 0HT
- OS grid reference
- NZ 527 340
- Coordinates
- 54.6984, -1.18312
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The United Reformed Church, originally known as the Independent Chapel, was built in 1843. It features dressed limestone that is rendered, painted, and scored to resemble ashlar, with a Welsh slate roof. The building is two stories high with a basement and has a three-by-three bay layout, presenting a gabled front to Durham Street, where the basement is fully exposed.
The façade includes an applied Tuscan Order, a plain frieze, and a pediment that displays the date and the word "INDEPENDENT" on a panel in the tympanum. The mid-20th century fixed rectangular windows are set in their original openings and have raised surrounds with shallow gabled heads. The central doorway consists of double three-panelled doors and an overlight, all within a raised surround that features a moulded cornice supported by simple consoles. There are spear-headed cast iron railings surrounding the basement well. The right (north) return has matching windows, and at the west end, there is a rectangular-plan gabled apse.
Local climate
United Reformed Church receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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