Friends' Meeting House and House Adjoining to South West is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1954. Meeting house. 3 related planning applications.

Friends' Meeting House and House Adjoining to South West

WRENN ID
twisted-chapel-furze
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ribble Valley
Constituency
Ribble Valley MP: Maya Ellis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 November 1954
Type
Meeting house
Address
Friends' Meeting House and House Adjoining to South West, BB7 4RS
OS grid reference
SD 772 466
Coordinates
53.91581, -2.34751
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

A Quaker meeting house and adjoining house, dating to the late 18th century. The building is constructed of squared watershot limestone with sandstone dressings and a stone slate roof. The meeting house, situated to the right, is a single-story structure with a gallery. The adjoining house is of two stories.

The meeting house features a tripartite sash window with glazing bars, a plain stone surround, and square mullions on each side of the entrance door. The double doors have raised and fielded panels, a plain stone surround with a semi-circular head and keystone above a lintel, and a fanlight with radiating glazing bars.

The house has a projecting bay to the left of its doorway, featuring sash windows with glazing bars and plain stone surrounds. Projecting quoins match those on the right side of the meeting house. A 19th-century extension is located to the left, incorporating quoins of imitation stone. A two-light window with a plain stone surround and square mullions is on the first floor of the house, while a French window with a plain stone surround is on the ground floor. A brick chimney cap is visible on the left-hand gable. The right-hand gable wall of the meeting house has two two-light windows on the first floor, each with a plain stone surround and square mullions. A door with a plain stone surround is positioned below.

The interior of the meeting room contains fixed pine benches of raised and fielded panels on the left-hand side. A wide gallery, originally used by women and children, is located on the right. It has a front of raised and fielded panels, some of which function as shutters.

Local climate

Friends' Meeting House and House Adjoining to South West sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% 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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