Congregational Church is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1998. Church.
Congregational Church
- WRENN ID
- cold-timber-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1998
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Congregational Church, Four Elms, Hever
- OS grid reference
- TQ 467 484
- Coordinates
- 51.21635, 0.09992
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Congregational Church in Hever is a chapel built around 1830, with a later 19th-century side chapel. It is designed in a classical style. The main building features red brick with grey headers, while the front is finished in stucco and topped with a slate roof. The façade includes a moulded pediment and a plain cornice supported by four pilasters. The central doorcase has a cornice, moulded architrave, and double doors with six fielded panels.
The side elevation consists of four bays with round-headed windows that have original cast iron multi-paned fixed casements, separated by a cornice and pilasters. The rear of the building features an oculus and an original lean-to extension with an 8-pane sash window, likely serving as a vestry.
Attached to the north is a late 19th-century side chapel made of brick and pebbledash, also with a slate roof. This chapel has a projecting pedimented gable with a round-headed window at the front, a round-headed doorcase with double doors, three cambered sashes on the side elevation, and an oculus at the rear.
Inside the original building, there is a plain wooden gallery to the west and tongue and groove panelling up to dado height. This chapel shares a similar style and date with the Westerham Congregational Chapel, which is dated 1839, and may have been designed by the same architect.
Local climate
Congregational Church receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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