United Reformed Church is a Grade II* listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1954. Chapel. 1 related planning application.
United Reformed Church
- WRENN ID
- errant-floor-acorn
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1954
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- United Reformed Church, Chapel Road, Wrentham, NR34 7LT
- OS grid reference
- TM 497 827
- Coordinates
- 52.38538, 1.66839
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The United Reformed Church, dated 1778 on the keystone over the central ground floor window, is a chapel located in Wrentham. It is constructed of red brick and features a rendered flat parapet around three sides, along with a mansard hipped roof covered in glazed black pantiles. The building is two storeys high with a symmetrical three-bay entrance facade. This facade includes semi-circular headed two-light and three-light square-leaded casement windows with Y tracery, as well as raised stone springers and keys. There are two doorways, each fitted with later four-panel raised and fielded doors, set within semi-circular arched recesses and surrounded by panelled surrounds that appear to be the original doors. The two-bay returns also have similar windows. Inside, there is a gallery on three sides, supported by slender wooden columns and two large columns at the corners, which are painted to resemble marble. The stairs to the gallery have been removed. The interior features box pews with raised and fielded panels and panelled entrance lobbies. Facing the gallery is a pulpit with inscriptions related to the founding of the chapel in the 17th century.
Local climate
United Reformed Church receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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 — 3 transactions since 2001
- 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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