Former Congregational Chapel - Cowper Church and Sunday School is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 August 1972. Chapel, church, school. 1 related planning application.
Former Congregational Chapel - Cowper Church and Sunday School
- WRENN ID
- floating-parapet-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 August 1972
- Type
- Chapel, church, school
- Address
- Former Congregational Chapel - Cowper Church and Sunday School, London Road, Dereham, NR19 1AS
- OS grid reference
- TF 989 129
- Coordinates
- 52.6779, 0.94161
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former Congregational Chapel, known as Cowper Church and Sunday School, was built in 1772 and features a red brick construction in the Gothick style. The building is arranged in two tiers with hipped roofs, comprising sections with two and three window portions. It has toothed eaves and five pointed windows on the ground floor at the east side, along with five pointed blank panels above. On the south side, there is a central pointed entrance flanked by pointed windows. The windows are casement style with glazing bars that are interlaced at the heads.
Local climate
Former Congregational Chapel - Cowper Church and Sunday School receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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