Society of Friends Meeting House is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 April 1951. Meeting house. 2 related planning applications.
Society of Friends Meeting House
- WRENN ID
- graven-parapet-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 April 1951
- Type
- Meeting house
- Address
- Society of Friends Meeting House, Overton Bank, Leek, ST13 5ES
- OS grid reference
- SJ 981 565
- Coordinates
- 53.10625, -2.02835
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Society of Friends Meeting House receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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