United Reform Chapel

The United Reform Chapel, built around 1840, is a Nonconformist chapel located on Chapel Lane in Houghton and Wyton. It is constructed of gault brick and features a low-pitch slate roof with a deep overhang at the eaves. The gable end has a pediment and is adorned with bracket modillions and a bulls eye window that has radiating glazing bars in the tympanum. Flanking the gault brick porch, which also has a pedimented gable end, are two semi-circular headed hung sash windows with glazing bars. The porch features a semi-circular headed arch leading to panelled double doors. Similar windows are present on the side elevations. Inside, the chapel has a raked floor and a gallery supported by fluted cast iron columns with palmette capitals. At the entry, there are two iron lyre boot scrapers. A wrought iron fence sits on a brick sill along the road. The chapel is associated with Potto Brown.