Friends Meeting House is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 March 1965. Meeting house. 5 related planning applications.
Friends Meeting House
- WRENN ID
- solitary-wicket-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Ossett and Denby Dale MP: Jade Botterill (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1965
- Type
- Meeting house
- Address
- Friends Meeting House, Penistone Road, Denby Dale, HD8 8XU
- OS grid reference
- SE 212 074
- Coordinates
- 53.56336, -1.68092
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Friends Meeting House is a Quaker Meeting House, likely built in the early 19th century, although it may have earlier origins. The structure is made of hammer-dressed stone with quoins and features a stone slate roof supported by paired gutter brackets. The rear has thinly coursed rubble, which is part of an earlier building. A notable feature is the good ashlar stack with a cornice. The building is a tall single-storey meeting room, with two storeys to the left, and consists of four bays that contain large 24-pane sash windows with crown glass. There is a square stone porch topped with a single stone slab roof, and the entrance has a double panelled door with a semi-circular fanlight that has radial glazing bars. At the rear, there is a reset door lintel inscribed with "B J E 1697."
Inside, the meeting room is furnished with contemporary furniture, including loose benches arranged around the center and tiers of fixed benches with fielded panelled backs at the front. A gallery at the rear has a similar panelled front and shutters, supported by two cast iron columns. A central wrought iron candelabra adds to the interior's character.
The first meeting is said to have been founded by John Firth around 1700.
Local climate
Friends Meeting House receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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