Friends Sunday School is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1970. School.
Friends Sunday School
- WRENN ID
- former-merlon-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 January 1970
- Type
- School
- Address
- Friends Sunday School, Sanidway Lane, Antrobus
- OS grid reference
- SJ 636 792
- Coordinates
- 53.30881, -2.54753
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Friends Sunday School, originally the Friends Meeting House, is a 19th-century building that has been altered. It is constructed of brown brick in an irregular English garden wall bond and features a grey slate roof. The building is two stories high and has 9-pane casement windows of a 19th-century vernacular style facing the road.
On the left gable end, there is an external stair with stone treads, a quarter-landing, brick risers, and stone-coped brick parapets. This stair serves as a porch for the entrance to the lower storey, which has replaced boarded doors. There are vertical oval windows on each side of the upper door and a horizontal leaded oval window in the gable above the door. The opposite gable end has similar windows, but the upper window is blocked.
At the rear, there is a late 19th-century open slate-roofed brick outshut. A cast iron plate is inscribed with "7 OAK TREES PLANTED 1897 IN THIS THE FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE YARD FRANDLEY, TO COMMEMORATE THE DIAMOND JUBILEE OF QUEEN VICTORIA, SEVENOAKS BEING THE NAME OF THE TOWNSHIP." The yard is enclosed by an attached stone-coped brick wall that rises with quadrant steps on each side, leading to a repaired gateway.
Inside, the building has been altered, but features a chamfered oak beam on the upper floor. The roof structure is boxed in, although shaped supporting brackets for the central truss remain visible.
Local climate
Friends Sunday School sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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