Thorpe Baptist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1987. Church. 1 related planning application.

Thorpe Baptist Church

WRENN ID
stubborn-hearth-weasel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tendring
Constituency
Clacton MP: Nigel Farage (RUK)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 January 1987
Type
Church
Address
Thorpe Baptist Church, High Street, Thorpe-Le-Soken
OS grid reference
TM 179 223
Coordinates
51.85742, 1.16415
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Thorpe Baptist Church is a Baptist church built in 1803. It features a timber frame, is weatherboarded and roughcast, and has a roof covered with old grey slates. The church has a rectangular plan facing southwest, with a single-storey block at the rear and stands two storeys tall. On the ground floor, there are two 19th or early 20th century sash windows with 16 lights each. The first floor has two original sash windows with 4 + 8 lights, made with crown glass. The front entrance includes 20th century double doors beneath an original gabled canopy supported by scrolled brackets, with the left side later boarded up. The front elevation is roughcast, while the rest of the building is weatherboarded. The hipped roof has a shallow pitch, lead hip ridges, and long overhanging eaves with paired brackets.

On the left side of the building, the ground floor has two original sash windows with 16 lights and two with 12 lights, while the first floor has two original sash windows with 4 + 8 lights. The right side mirrors this with two original sash windows of 16 lights on the ground floor and two with 4 + 8 lights on the first floor. Most original sashes still contain crown glass. The rear block also has a hipped slate roof, and the upper storey of the main hall's rear elevation features two sash windows with 12 lights and semi-circular heads. Inside, the church has one storey with a gallery at the southwest end, which has a panelled front supported by cast iron stanchions, added in 1820.

Local climate

Thorpe Baptist Church receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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