Former Horeb Welsh Presbyterian Church is a Grade II listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 May 1990. Church. 6 related planning applications.
Former Horeb Welsh Presbyterian Church
- WRENN ID
- riven-footing-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bridgend
- Constituency
- Bridgend MP: Chris Elmore (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1990
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Former Horeb Welsh Presbyterian Church, Laleston, CF32 0HL
- OS grid reference
- SS 877 798
- Coordinates
- 51.50615, -3.61862
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The former Horeb Welsh Presbyterian Church is a small, rectangular building dating from the 18th century, constructed of coursed dressed stone with tooled dressings, and rendered to the sides and rear. It has a Welsh slate roof with boarded eaves and a gable finial. The front gable features large kneelers connected by a string course above a central, moulded plaque with an eroded inscription. Two tall, pointed arched windows with small-pane fixed glazing and intersecting tracery are set within chamfered surrounds and sills. Pointed arched doorways with matching tracery in the overlights and boarded doors are located on either side of the gable, with a stepped nosing to the left. A low clasping buttress is positioned to the left, and the right side adjoins a schoolroom. A battered plinth runs along the base. The side elevations contain single windows, similar to those on the front, with moulded render surrounds; two more windows are present at the rear. The chapel faces onto a yard paved with stone flags, and together with a later schoolroom and house complex is enclosed by a low wall built of rockfaced stone with piers featuring saddleback copings and tooled pyramidal caps, gates, and iron railings with decorative stanchions.
The interior, now used as a schoolroom, incorporates a raked gallery against the front wall. This gallery has bowed ironwork at the front, bracketed out to its base, and is supported by a single cast-iron Corinthian pier that curves slightly outwards against the side walls. A moulded ceiling cornice is present, and a curved wooden staircase leads up to the gallery.
Local climate
Former Horeb Welsh Presbyterian Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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