Quaker Meeting House, to Rear of Numbers 203-5 is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1987. Meeting house. 9 related planning applications.
Quaker Meeting House, to Rear of Numbers 203-5
- WRENN ID
- eternal-remnant-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1987
- Type
- Meeting house
- Address
- Quaker Meeting House, to Rear of Numbers 203-5, High Street, Kelvedon
- OS grid reference
- TL 863 191
- Coordinates
- 51.83989, 0.70395
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Quaker Meeting House, located to the rear of numbers 203-5 on Kelvedon High Street, is an early 18th-century building that has been converted into a store. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond and features a roof made of handmade red plain tiles. The building has a rectangular plan that faces southeast, although internally it faces southwest. There is a 20th-century lean-to workshop attached to the front elevation and a small lean-to at the rear.
The structure is two storeys high and includes three 18th-century sash windows with 8 over 12 lights, all set within segmental arches, as well as one oval window with radial tracery. Some of the glass in these windows is crown glass. The doorway has been reduced and altered with 20th-century brickwork. The roof has a double range design with leaded hips, and there is a similar sash window on each side and one at the rear.
The northeast end of the rear elevation has been rebuilt in the 20th century, but it retains the earlier sash window, with flettons on the inside. Inside, the building originally featured a boarded dado around the walls, of which some remains at the northeast end. There are also two wooden platforms for seating that span the full width of the northeast end. The Kelvedon Local Meeting was established in 1711, with records kept at the Friends' Meeting House in Colchester.
Local climate
Quaker Meeting House, to Rear of Numbers 203-5 sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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