Church of St Nicholas is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1994. Church. 4 related planning applications.
Church of St Nicholas
- WRENN ID
- rough-hall-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 July 1994
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Nicholas, and Attached Gate and Railings, Friars Street, Hereford
- OS grid reference
- SO 506 397
- Coordinates
- 52.05423, -2.72072
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Nicholas is a parish church dating to circa 1842, designed by Thomas Duckham of Hereford. It is constructed of dressed and ashlar sandstone with a Welsh slate roof. The church comprises a nave, aisles, and a west tower. The south front features seven lancet windows with hood mouldings and lattice-glazing, set between ashlar buttresses. A central stone-coped ashlar porch, also with buttresses and a studded plank door, provides access. The east front is characterized by a three-light lancet window containing stained glass, alongside a trefoil opening and a cross finial. Octagonal spur-buttresses with pyramid finials are present, along with single lancets to the aisles. A single-storey vestry is located to the right. The tower has a west entrance, corner buttresses, blind lancets and bullseye lights, bands, paired lancets with louvres, and a corbelled cornice to its parapet. The aisles also feature blind lancets. Extending from the vestry, northeast for approximately 30 metres, are cast-iron railings incorporating a gate, both with acorn finials and supported by an ashlar-coped dwarf wall.
Local climate
Church of St Nicholas receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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