Manse to United Reform Church is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 October 1987. House.

Manse to United Reform Church

WRENN ID
ragged-vestry-bracken
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 October 1987
Type
House
Address
Manse to United Reform Church, 5, North Street, Stoke Sub Hamdon
OS grid reference
ST 473 175
Coordinates
50.95455, -2.75115
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Manse to the United Reform Church is a house likely built in 1866, possibly designed by Robert C. Bennett. It is constructed from Ham stone ashlar and features a Welsh slate roof with coped gables and cross finials, along with ashlar chimney stacks. The building has two storeys with attics and consists of three bays, with the first bay projecting.

The windows are plain sash types set in pointed archways, with paired windows in the upper bays one and three. The third bay is slightly gabled and features Gothic-style columns between the windows, along with a double-arched label that has foliage stops. There are cusped triangular gable vents above these windows. The second upper bay has a single plain lancet window.

On the ground floor, bay one has an angled bay window with segmental-pointed window arches and a hipped stepped stone roof. Bay three contains a pair of shouldered arched windows, while bay two features a pitched roof porch with the ridge parallel to the facade. The porch has a stone slab roof with an ornamental eaves course and ridge, and three cusped lancets with Gothic columns between them on the front. The door is set in a pointed arch on the north gable. The other elevations match the main facade, and the north elevation also has a matching angled bay window. The interior has been partly seen and appears to have no significant alterations.

Local climate

Manse to United Reform Church receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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