Congregational Chapel is a Grade II* listed building in the Broadland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1978. Chapel.
Congregational Chapel
- WRENN ID
- inner-landing-barley
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Broadland
- Constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1978
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Congregational Chapel, Hall Road, Oulton
- OS grid reference
- TG 140 292
- Coordinates
- 52.81792, 1.17571
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Congregational Chapel is a non-conformist chapel dated 1728, located on Oulton Hall Road. It is constructed of red brick with roofs made of red and black-glazed pantiles. The building has a double-pile plan and is one storey high with a gallery. The west facade is symmetrical, featuring four bays and two storeys, with sash windows that have glazing bars and architraves. The ground floor openings have segmental heads, and the outer bays contain doorways with two-leaf flush-panelled doors. The chapel has double shaped gables on the north and south sides, each with segmental-headed cross-windows. A platband runs along the eaves level of the north gables. The east wall has two segmental-headed cross-windows, and there are two doorways that are now blocked, leading to a gabled red brick annexe, which is roofless and in a derelict state, dated 1839 on its north gable. There are also 19th-century memorial stones set against the west wall.
Inside, the chapel features a gallery around three sides, supported by wooden Doric columns and slender iron columns. The plan is symmetrical, with two entrance lobbies, each containing a staircase that leads to the gallery. The gallery parapet has raised and fielded panels, with fluted pilasters above the column supports. The interior includes panelled box-pews with raked seating and raised and fielded dado panelling around the ground floor. The pulpit and benches are later additions. Two large Doric columns support the roof structure along the central valley.
Local climate
Congregational Chapel receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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