Friends' Meeting House is a Grade II* listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. Meeting house. 2 related planning applications.
Friends' Meeting House
- WRENN ID
- dark-panel-alder
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Keighley and Ilkley MP: Robbie Moore (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Meeting house
- Address
- Friends' Meeting House, Bolton Road, Addingham, LS29 0RQ
- OS grid reference
- SE 076 517
- Coordinates
- 53.96215, -1.8855
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Friends' Meeting House, dated 1689, is a significant Quaker Meeting House located on Bolton Road in Addingham. It is constructed from thin coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and features a stone slate roof. The building has a domestic appearance and is a single storey with three bays. It includes quoins and a doorway with composite jambs, topped by a segmental-arched lintel that displays the date within a tressure and a stop-chamfered surround. The windows are double-chamfered, with a three-light window on the left and a four-light window on the right. The gables are coped with kneelers, and there is a central stack along with an additional stack added to the right gable.
Inside, the Meeting House has a single vessel with a king-post truss that is braced to the ridge with single angle struts. The east end retains its original oak-panelled dais, which includes settles and a rostrum, featuring finely-turned balusters that form the Elders' Gallery. There is also an oak-panelled settle and another settle located on the north wall.
This building was constructed in the year of the Act of Toleration and is an important and largely intact example of a Quaker Meeting House.
Local climate
Friends' Meeting House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% 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 — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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