New Meeting House is a Grade II listed building in the Wyre Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1980. Church. 3 related planning applications.
New Meeting House
- WRENN ID
- hollow-merlon-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wyre Forest
- Constituency
- Wyre Forest MP: Mark Garnier (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1980
- Type
- Church
- Address
- New Meeting House, Church Street, Kidderminster, DY10 2AR
- OS grid reference
- SO 831 767
- Coordinates
- 52.38892, -2.24861
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The New Meeting House, built around 1883 by Payne and Talbot, is a Gothic chapel for the Unitarian Church. It is constructed from rockfaced red stone with white stone dressings. The building features a gabled front with a coped stone plaque and an enriched cornice. There are two windows with three cusped lights, each surrounded by crocketed finials, and two outer windows with a single light and cusped heads, all beneath dripmoulds with finials and terminals. A carved band runs between the storeys. The ground floor includes two small doorways and one large doorway, all topped with crocketed finials, with the outer windows matching those above. The chapel sits on a stone plinth and is accessed by four steps. End stone pilasters rise to gabled heights at the half-storey and first floor, topped with plain pyramidal caps. Notably, the chapel houses Richard Baxter's pulpit from 1621.
Local climate
New Meeting House 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 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2023
- Related listed building consents — 3 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings