United Reform Church is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1951. Church. 1 related planning application.
United Reform Church
- WRENN ID
- fallow-brass-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1951
- Type
- Church
- Address
- United Reform Church, Earls' Street, Thetford, IP24 2AD
- OS grid reference
- TL 872 831
- Coordinates
- 52.41416, 0.75129
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The United Reform Church, originally built as a Congregational chapel in 1817, is located on Earls' Street in Thetford. The building is constructed from flint with gault brick dressings and features a gault brick facade. It has a hipped roof covered with black-glazed pantiles and stands two storeys tall with three bays. The central stained-glass window is flanked by recessed six-panelled doors, each topped with round arches and six-vaned fanlights. The first floor has three sash windows with 6/6 glazing bars, and the structure includes gauged skewback arches.
Inside, a west gallery was added in 1843, supported by timber posts and featuring a panelled balcony. This gallery was blocked off in 1968 to create a first-floor meeting room.
Local climate
United Reform Church sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2026
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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
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