United Reformed Church is a Grade II listed building in the Brentwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1976. A C19 Church. 3 related planning applications.

United Reformed Church

WRENN ID
proud-eave-pine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brentwood
Constituency
Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 February 1976
Type
Church
Address
United Reformed Church, New Road, CM14 4GD
OS grid reference
TQ 595 935
Coordinates
51.61857, 0.30265
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The United Reformed Church, along with its adjacent hall, was built in 1847 and extended in 1982. It is constructed of grey and yellow brick, with a stuccoed front, and has a slate roof. The building has a rectangular plan, with a rear ground-floor projection and a 20th-century central projecting porch with canted sides. It is two storeys high.

The eastern front elevation features a full-width pediment and six bays, with the central four bays projecting forward. Between the ground and first floors is an Ionic entablature. On the ground floor, the central four bays have pilasters supporting this entablature, with original entry doorways between – now mostly fully glazed or with 20th-century two-leaved glazed doors. The outer bays retain their original doorways, also now fully glazed. The first floor has round-headed windows matching the bays below, with metal casements and glazing bars in a 5x3 pane pattern, with the outer panes narrower than the central three. The semicircular heads of the windows are similarly glazed, with radiating and concentric glazing bars. The pediment has a central 'thermal' window with a keystone, a roof vent above, and an acroterion on the apex.

The western rear elevation has a low-pitched gable and a 19th-century ground-floor projection with a hipped roof. A 20th-century porch with canted sides and a stone door surround contains a two-leaf door with three long glazed panels. Each side of the porch has a 19th-century segment-headed casement window with metal glazing bars in a 5x7 pane pattern. A large projecting 20th-century window rises from a hipped roof, with five canted sides and full glazing with vertical glazing bars, topped with a hipped roof. The upper and lower visible roof sections use plastic imitation slates.

The north and south side elevations, each with six bays, have ground and first-floor windows similar to those on the front elevation, with metal frames and glazing bars. The ground-floor windows are segment-headed, while the first-floor windows are round-headed. A two-leaf glazed door is located in the west bay of the south elevation. A four-panelled door with a fixed side panel is in the second bay from the east front on the north elevation.

The interior was substantially rebuilt and subdivided in 1982 to accommodate a lower community room and a church on the first floor. Some original pews and ironwork were preserved and repositioned within the church.

Local climate

United Reformed Church sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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