Friends' Meeting House And Cottage Adjoining To South West

SD 6950 18/44

NEWTON, BACK LANE, Friends' Meeting House and cottage adjoining to south-west

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Quaker meeting house, 1767. Slobbered limestone rubble with sandstone dressings. The front of the roof has blue slates, the rear pitch having stone slates. One and 2 storeys, with a cellar under the right-hand (north-east) end. The windows are of lights with plain stone surrounds and square mullions. The cottage is of one bay and 2 storeys with a door to the right with plain stone surround and hood of 2 pitched stone slates. Above is a plaque with a moulded border: 'TBM 1767'. The meeting house, to the right, is of 3 bays with bays one and 2 having windows on the ground floor only. The windows to the right-hand bay have small panes. The door, between bays one and 2, has a plain stone surround and a hood of 2 pitched stone slates. The cellar door, at the right-hand end, has a plain stone surround. At the rear of the cottage there is a later outshut. Interior. Against the rear wall is a raised bench with a front of raised and fielded panels. The right-hand end is divided from the main room by a wall of raised and fielded panelling. Above this end is a gallery. The panels between the room beneath and the main room open as shutters.

Listing NGR: SD6951750414