Society Of Friends Meeting House

The Society of Friends Meeting House is a purpose-built structure dating from around 1694. It is constructed of roughly coursed and squared stone, topped with a plain-tiled roof. The building has an L-shaped plan, with an advanced wing on the left that contains a staircase and features a refronted gable wall.

The meeting house is two storeys tall and has an off-centre door with a 16-pane sash window above it, both of which have flat stone lintels. The main section of the building has a three-window range, although most of the windows are now blocked. The remaining horizontal openings may have originally been mullioned and include sash windows with 8 and 12 lights in the left-hand windows, while the others are blocked. There is a blocked doorway to the left of centre with a heavy chamfered lintel, as well as a similar blocked doorway in the gable wall and a blocked three-light mullioned window to its right. A tall upper window, which is a later addition, is also a 16-pane sash. The rear wall features similar window openings, all now fitted with sashes and heavy stone heads and quoins. The building has coped gables and a moulded string course.

Inside, there is a stone staircase in the advanced wing, and the former galleried meeting room has been subdivided under the gallery, which is now screened off with wood panelling. The meeting room includes a raised dais at one end, along with dado panelling. The meeting house was used by the Labour Church in the late 19th to early 20th century and contains murals by Walter Crane, which have been painted over.