Congregational Church Manse is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1974. Manse.
Congregational Church Manse
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-soffit-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1974
- Type
- Manse
- Address
- Congregational Church Manse, Reading Road, Henley-On-Thames
- OS grid reference
- SU 761 823
- Coordinates
- 51.53508, -0.90343
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Congregational Church Manse is an early 19th-century building located on Reading Road. It stands on the site of the former manse that was home to Humphrey Gainsborough, an engineer and inventor from 1748 to 1776. The manse features a stucco facade and a hipped slate roof, with two storeys and three windows. The first-floor windows are two-light casements with dripstone moulds. The ground floor has a central door with a small canopy, flanked by canted bay windows that have hipped roofs. To the left, there is a window extension, with a ground floor window that also has a dripstone mould, similar to the other first-floor windows. All ground floor windows are sashes with glazing bars. The manse is set within a garden.
The Congregational Church Manse, along with its garden wall, forms a group with the properties numbered 29 to 47 (odd) opposite, as well as the Church, Church Hall, and the gates and railings of the Churchyard wall.
Local climate
Congregational Church Manse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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