Number 79 and Mount Pleasant Baptist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Burnley local planning authority area, England. Church. 1 related planning application.
Number 79 and Mount Pleasant Baptist Church
- WRENN ID
- guardian-gravel-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Burnley
- Constituency
- Burnley MP: Oliver Ryan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Number 79 and Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, Hammerton Street, BB11 1LE
- OS grid reference
- SD 838 323
- Coordinates
- 53.78726, -2.24629
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 79 and Mount Pleasant Baptist Church is a Methodist chapel, now serving as a Baptist church and Sunday School, built around 1835 for the Protestant Wesleyan Methodist Society. It underwent alterations between 1868 and 1871 by the Baptist Society, with the Sunday School added in the later 19th century. The building is constructed of coursed squared dressed sandstone with freestone dressings and has a slate roof.
The structure has a rectangular plan that is oriented at right angles to the street, with the Sunday School attached at the rear. It is two storeys high and features a symmetrical facade with three bays. The outer bays are narrower and slightly projected, all topped with an open-pedimental gabled form. The central section has full-width steps leading to coupled entrances and windows set within a two-storeyed round-headed architrave, which is enhanced by superimposed pilasters, a moulded cornice over the ground floor, and a moulded head with a panelled keystone. The doorways feature moulded surrounds, recessed panelled doors, and overlights with coloured margin panes. The upper windows are sashed and also have similar margin panes. The outer bays contain tall eight-pane round-headed windows with coloured panes and margins, along with panelled keystones.
Adjoining to the left is Number 79, which slightly overlaps the left bay. It has a three-storey single-window gabled facade with a doorway to the right in a plain surround, and windows that have raised sills, plain surrounds, and altered glazing. The side walls of the church feature tall round-headed windows, with five located on the north side. At the rear, the Sunday School, built at right angles to the church, has a two-storey three-window gabled facade, which includes a large cross-window in the center of the upper floor. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Number 79 and Mount Pleasant Baptist Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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 — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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