Friends' Meeting House is a Grade II* listed building in the Stafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1951. Meeting house.
Friends' Meeting House
- WRENN ID
- open-chalk-coral
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Stafford
- Constituency
- Stafford MP: Leigh Ingham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1951
- Type
- Meeting house
- Address
- Friends' Meeting House, Foregate Street
- OS grid reference
- SJ 920 237
- Coordinates
- 52.811, -2.1198
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Friends' Meeting House is a historic building located in Stafford, dated 1730, with a late 19th-century addition. It is constructed of brick and features a tile roof with coped gables. The structure is rectangular and set back from the road, consisting of a single storey with a three-window range. A wooden cornice runs along the top. The entrance, located to the right of the center, has a pegged frame and an altered panelled door, along with a bracketed gabled canopy and a bull's eye window with bull's eye glass above. Below the cornice, there is a datestone. The windows are adorned with rubbed brick flat arches that have fluted keys and cross casements, and there is a small window on the left return. At the rear, there is a single-storey wing adjacent to a window with a pegged frame.
Inside, the meeting house retains original features, including panelling, a gallery with a stair featuring turned balusters, an overseers' bench, and an elders' gallery. This building is considered a well-preserved example of an early meeting house and is recognized as the best of its kind in Staffordshire.
Local climate
Friends' Meeting House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% 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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