Cotherstone Friends Meeting House

Cotherstone Friends Meeting House was built in 1797, with a porch added in 1837 and later alterations made.

The building features a low stone plinth and squared, coursed rubble stone walls with quoins and dressings, topped with stone roof coverings, stone kneelers, and coped gables. It is a single-storey structure, rectangular in shape, with a gabled roof and a short chimney ridge stack on the west gable. The south porch is also rectangular, and there is a small lean-to at the east end.

The main (south) front has four bays. From left to right, there is a tall round-headed window opening with a modern fourteen-over-six-light timber sash window, the porch, and two additional round-headed window openings with matching sash windows. The gabled porch features a panelled double-leaf door with a glazed radial fanlight. The west gable end has lettering fixed to the wall that reads "SOCIETY OF FRIENDS/ MEETING HOUSE." The rear (north) elevation has a pair of four-light mullioned windows at ground floor level in the western bay, while the east elevation includes a lean-to at the south end, accessed through a timber plank door.

Inside, the porch contains two doorways in the south wall of the meeting house. The left doorway leads into the former women’s meeting room, and the right doorway leads into the main meeting room. These two spaces are separated by a full-height timber screen decorated with reed and roundel motifs, which includes rising sash shutters. The former women’s meeting room has been converted into a small kitchen and toilet. The main meeting room features a panelled Elders’ stand that spans the full width of the east wall, accessed through central gates and three steps. The stand includes fixed benches, and two chandeliers, believed to be original to the building, hang from the flat ceiling.