United Reform Church is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1986. Church. 2 related planning applications.
United Reform Church
- WRENN ID
- wild-rubblework-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1986
- Type
- Church
- Address
- United Reform Church, Bickington Road, Fremington, EX31 2JG
- OS grid reference
- SS 534 324
- Coordinates
- 51.07285, -4.09264
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The United Reform Church is a Nonconformist chapel built in 1835 and restored in 1896. It features painted stucco with quoins and has a slate roof that is hipped at the front end and gabled at the rear. The building is rectangular in shape with an end entrance lobby and is a single storey with a two-storey entrance front. It has three symmetrical bays, with semi-circular arched windows that have moulded sills and arched glazing bars, all beneath continuous hoodmoulds. The central round arched doorway includes a blind fanlight and a 20th-century door, with a rectangular plaque on small brackets positioned above it. There are single opposing round arched windows on each side of the entrance.
Inside, the entrance lobby is bowed and features six panelled doors on each side, with the upper two panels being glazed. The interior includes late 19th-century furnishings, such as turned balusters for the moulded communion handrail and decorative wrought iron railings for the rostrum. The west end gallery is no longer present.
Local climate
United Reform Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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 — 2 transactions since 2018
- 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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