United Reformed Church is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1985. Church. 1 related planning application.
United Reformed Church
- WRENN ID
- scattered-dormer-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochdale
- Constituency
- Heywood and Middleton North MP: Mrs Elsie Blundell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1985
- Type
- Church
- Address
- United Reformed Church, Heywood Road, OL11 3BT
- OS grid reference
- SD 879 104
- Coordinates
- 53.59078, -2.18373
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The United Reformed Church, built in 1866, is a chapel constructed from rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and a slate roof. It features a first-floor meeting hall and vestry above an undercroft. There is a 20th-century single-storey extension to the north and single-storey vestries on the east side. The façade consists of three bays with a stone plinth and four giant pilasters, with the two central pilasters ending in bold pinnacles. Stone banding and a coped gable with a finial complete the design.
The central doorway is semi-circular headed and flanked by engaged columns with crocket capitals, a fanlight above, a projecting modillion cornice, and a parapet that serves as the base for three semi-circular headed windows on the first floor. The first and third bays each contain two semi-circular headed windows beneath pointed dripmoulds. The six-bay side elevations also have stone banding and semi-circular headed windows with stone voussoir arches. The three-bay vestry features similar windows, with the central window topped by a coped gablet. Inside, the meeting hall is supported by cast iron columns, and the entrance hall provides access via twin staircases.
Local climate
United Reformed Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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