United Reform Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1982. Chapel.
United Reform Chapel
- WRENN ID
- slow-passage-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1982
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- United Reform Chapel, Chapel Lane, Houghton and Wyton
- OS grid reference
- TL 280 721
- Coordinates
- 52.33234, -0.12209
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
United Reform Chapel sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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