Former Friends Meeting House and School, Toadhole Furnace is a Grade II listed building in the North East Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1973. Meeting house, school.

Former Friends Meeting House and School, Toadhole Furnace

WRENN ID
ghost-timber-birch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North East Derbyshire
Constituency
Bolsover MP: Natalie Fleet (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 February 1973
Type
Meeting house, school
Address
Former Friends Meeting House and School, Toadhole Furnace, Shirland Road, Shirland and Higham
OS grid reference
SK 389 569
Coordinates
53.10832, -1.42009
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Former Friends Meeting House and School at Toadhole Furnace, built in 1743, is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble with gritstone dressings and features slate roofs. The building consists of a single-storey meeting house to the east and a two-storey school house to the west, separated by a flight of stone steps. The meeting house has a two-light flush mullion window with 20th-century leaded lights on the east side, and a quoined, flush doorcase on the west side, which includes an inscribed lintel that reads 'Matthew Hopkinson 1743'. The west gable wall features another two-light flush mullion window and steps leading up to a plain doorcase with a plank door. Inside, there is a gallery located to the west. The school house has a lower profile with a four-centred arch and a quoined doorcase on the west gable wall, and above it are two glazing bar sashes in flush surrounds.

Local climate

Former Friends Meeting House and School, Toadhole Furnace receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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