United Reformed Church and Attached Parish Rooms is a Grade II listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 April 1988. Church. 2 related planning applications.
United Reformed Church and Attached Parish Rooms
- WRENN ID
- fossil-oriel-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ipswich
- Constituency
- Ipswich MP: Jack Abbott (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 April 1988
- Type
- Church
- Address
- United Reformed Church and Attached Parish Rooms, Barrack Corner, IP1 2NB
- OS grid reference
- TM 157 448
- Coordinates
- 52.0599, 1.14562
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The United Reformed Church, formerly Presbyterian, and the attached Parish Rooms were built in 1870 with additions around 1890. Designed by Frederick Barnes and constructed by Henry Luff, the building is in the Gothic Revival style. It features Kentish rag stone rubble with ashlar and blue brick dressings, and has slate roofs with moulded coped gables and kneelers, along with ornate iron ridge decoration. The exterior includes trefoil pierced parapets and a chamfered plinth.
The structure comprises a nave and a north-western tower topped with a spire, along with transepts and a polygonal apse. The eastern entrance front displays a gabled wall of the nave flanked by single projecting gabled porches, each adorned with cross finials and pointed arched doorways. Between the porches are three single pointed lancets, and above them is a large five-light pointed arched window featuring Geometrical tracery, a hood mould, and banded blue brick and ashlar voussoirs. To the south, there is a polygonal stair turret, while to the north stands a square tower with double lancet bell-openings on each face, topped by a broached ashlar spire with a single set of gabled lucarnes. The nave's north wall has three tall two-light pointed arched windows, and to the west, there is a projecting gabled transept. The apse is adorned with three small triple lancet windows. The south-west features gabled parish rooms built in a similar style. Inside, the church boasts a fine wooden roof and contemporary wooden fittings, although the walls are whitewashed.
Local climate
United Reformed Church and Attached Parish Rooms sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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