Friends Meeting House is a Grade II listed building in the Wyre Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 April 1950. Chapel. 4 related planning applications.
Friends Meeting House
- WRENN ID
- veiled-banister-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wyre Forest
- Constituency
- Wyre Forest MP: Mark Garnier (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 April 1950
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Friends Meeting House, Lower Park, Bewdley, DY12 2DP
- OS grid reference
- SO 788 750
- Coordinates
- 52.37279, -2.3119
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a Friends Meeting House, likely dating from around 1691, with alterations from the early 19th century and a late 20th-century extension. It is constructed of brick with a tile roof. The two roof bays are aligned north-west to south-east, with the extension adding to the north-west gable. The north-east front has one storey, marked by a band above the windows. It features three windows: a small fixed casement on the left, and two timber cross-windows with rectangular leaded quarries and cambered heads. A roughly central blocked opening likely marked a former entrance. The south-east gable is similarly one storey, with a window illuminating a gallery in the gable. A dentilled brick cornice tops the gable, with a band above the upper window and above the ground floor. The ground floor has a central entrance under a cambered head, featuring a wooden architrave and a door consisting of four raised and fielded panels. Inside, a gallery to the south-east end features stick balusters for the balustrade. Other fittings are plain and date from the early 19th century. The building holds group value due to its architectural and historical significance.
Local climate
Friends Meeting House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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