United Reformed Church and Adjoining Manse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1955. Church, manse, school. 1 related planning application.
United Reformed Church and Adjoining Manse
- WRENN ID
- leaning-wall-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1955
- Type
- Church, manse, school
- Address
- United Reformed Church and Adjoining Manse, TA2 6RU
- OS grid reference
- ST 193 258
- Coordinates
- 51.02665, -3.151
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The United Reformed Church and adjoining manse, originally built in 1821, is a chapel, manse, and school that was enlarged in the mid to late 19th century and altered in the late 20th century. The building is rendered and features a gable front with a valley in between, along with bitumen-covered slate roofs and a corrugated iron lean-to addition on the right. The layout consists of the chapel in the center, the manse on the left, and the school on the right.
It is two storeys high with a façade of one to three bays. The left gable end has 20th-century windows, while the right side has a string course at the base of the gable and a plaque in the apex inscribed 'Built AD 1821'. The chapel has semicircular headed sash windows with glazing bars, and the main entrance is through a flat-roofed wooden porch with chamfered corners and a double floor. The left side features an open pedimented pilaster doorcase with a fanlight and a plain door, while the right side has a cantilevered porch supported by shaped console brackets, leading to another plain door. There is also a tablet inscribed 'E.N. Welin' at ground level. The right return has three bays with 16-pane sash windows. The open pilaster doorcase originally belonged to the chapel door but was relocated to the manse when the porch was added. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
United Reformed Church and Adjoining Manse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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