Unitarian Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1967. Chapel. 2 related planning applications.
Unitarian Chapel
- WRENN ID
- narrow-doorway-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1967
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Unitarian Chapel, Dirty Lane, Great Hucklow, Derbyshire Dales
- OS grid reference
- SK 178 777
- Coordinates
- 53.29611, -1.73371
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Unitarian Chapel, built in 1796 and enlarged in 1901, is located on Dirty Lane in Great Hucklow. It is constructed from coursed squared gritstone with gritstone dressings and quoins. The building features a continuous plain sill band and a plain eaves band, topped with a 20th-century concrete tile roof, while the southern addition has blue slate. The chapel has stone-coped gables with plain kneelers and consists of four bays, with three bays being single storey and the southern bay rising to two storeys.
Both the east and west elevations display three semi-circular headed glazing bar sash windows set in plain ashlar surrounds. To the west of the narrower southern bay, there is a semi-circular headed doorcase with a 20th-century door, above which is a 2-light square sectioned mullion window. The south gable wall features a similar window below a plaque inscribed 'Founded 1696. Rebuilt on present site 1796. Enlarged 1901', linking it to an upper semi-circular headed small pane window in a plain surround. Above this is a corbelled out bellcote topped by a stone cross. The north gable wall has a round plaque inscribed 'lL 1796'.
Inside, the chapel includes a western gallery supported by turned wooden columns, 1910 pews, pine panelling, and a cusped panelled pulpit. There is also a reset wall memorial to William Drabble from 1877.
Local climate
Unitarian Chapel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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