The Quaker Meeting House is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1976. Meeting house. 1 related planning application.
The Quaker Meeting House
- WRENN ID
- under-jade-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1976
- Type
- Meeting house
- Address
- The Quaker Meeting House, 8, Ring O'Bells Lane, Disley, SK12 2AG
- OS grid reference
- SJ 975 844
- Coordinates
- 53.35681, -2.0385
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Quaker Meeting House is a building located on Ring O' Bells Lane in Disley. Originally constructed around 1700, it has undergone alterations from the late 18th century onwards. The structure was formerly two houses and later served as the Ring O' Bells public house before becoming a Quaker Meeting House and cottage in 1940. It is built from coursed, squared, buff sandstone rubble and features a Kerridge stone-slate roof with three stone chimneys.
The building has a long rectangular plan and is two stories high, with an irregular seven-bay front. This includes one blocked two-light chamfered mullion and horizontal sliding sashes with 8, 18, and 32 panes set in plain reveals. The entrance is towards the center and is sheltered by a hipped 20th-century rubble stone porch with a Welsh slate roof. There is also a blocked door to the right, which has a shallow hood mould. The rear of the building features a mix of two and three-light horizontal sliding sashes, along with one partly-blocked three-light mullion.
Inside, the building retains features from its time as a late 19th-century beer house, including a long open gallery above. There is also one early 19th-century iron basket grate set in a partly blocked large earlier surround.
Local climate
The Quaker Meeting House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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