Quakers' Rest

Quakers' Rest is a Society of Friends' Meeting House that has been converted into a house. It was built in 1771, as indicated by the date on the rear gable kneeler. This building replaced a house in the village of Raby that was demolished around the same time for park improvements. The property underwent alterations around 1981.

The structure is made of coursed squared sandstone with quoins and ashlar dressings, featuring a pantile roof with stone eaves, stone gable copings, and a brick chimney. It is a single-storey building with three bays, an east porch, and a pent extension on the east side. The east elevation, which faces the street, has renewed double doors with a five-pane overlight set in a plain stone surround within a pedimented porch. The pediment bed continues as coping on the returns. The left return features a sash window.

The main building has a large renewed sash window with glazing bars in a tooled stone surround located in the first bay, along with a small rectangular vent at ground level in a plain stone surround. The pent extension to the right of the porch includes inserted windows and a door, with raised eaves. The roof displays cyma-moulded kneelers and has a small square chimney at the left end. The gabled right return has paired renewed sashes in plain stone surrounds, a blocked opening under a flat stone lintel at the gable peak, and two wide inserted windows in the lower part.

Historically, Jeremiah Dixon, one of the surveyors of the U.S. Mason-Dixon Line, is buried in the graveyard, which is now a garden to the north. He does not have a headstone, but there are stones marking the graves of his family members.