Ebenezer Presbyterian Chapel, including New Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Blaenau Gwent local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 October 1999. Chapel.

Ebenezer Presbyterian Chapel, including New Cottage

WRENN ID
under-chamber-bistre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Blaenau Gwent
Constituency
Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney MP: Nick Smith (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
29 October 1999
Type
Chapel
Address
Ebenezer Presbyterian Chapel, including New Cottage, Ebbw Vale
OS grid reference
SO 169 100
Coordinates
51.78293, -3.2059
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Ebenezer Presbyterian Chapel, including New Cottage, is a building constructed of rubble with a hipped slate roof featuring deep eaves. The west elevation is rendered, and the chapel has a large rectangular plan that originally faced east with a long-wall facade. The north facade was formed in 1911 and consists of four bays with round-arched openings that have yellow brick heads. The entry is located in the second bay from the right, which is central to the chapel's interior, featuring a four-panel door with leaded glazing in the fanlight. The ground floor has eight-paned timber glazing, with the two left windows shortened for a later store that occupies the space between the chapel and the forecourt wall. A tablet inscribed ‘Ebenezer Trefnyddion Calfiniadd 1850. 1911’ is present. The west side is rendered and five bays long, with round-arched windows on both storeys. The left bay is mostly obscured by a former vestry, which is now a separate dwelling known as Vestry Cottage.

The east side, which was originally the facade, features the front of New Cottage to the left and the elevation of the vestries to the right. New Cottage has five narrow bays, with the door set to the right under a round-arched brick head and a panelled door. To the left on the ground floor are two four-pane sash windows with segmental yellow brick heads, and above them are three similar sashes, with the centre window being narrower. The vestry elevation consists of two bays and has a window similar to that on the front of the chapel. There is a small 20th-century roughcast porch on the ground floor to the left.

Inside, there is a rear gallery supported by thick plain iron columns. The gallery front features an applied grained finish with simple repeated round-arched panels, likely a reused portion of the 1850 gallery. The open pews, installed in 1911, are slightly inclined. The chapel also contains a rectangular timber pulpit from 1911, which has end stairs and thick turned balusters, along with a flat boarded and ribbed ceiling.

Local climate

Ebenezer Presbyterian Chapel, including New Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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