Quaker House is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1986. Former chapel.
Quaker House
- WRENN ID
- guardian-merlon-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1986
- Type
- Former chapel
- Address
- Quaker House, Dereham Road, Mattishall
- OS grid reference
- TG 034 114
- Coordinates
- 52.66291, 1.00682
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Quaker House is a former Quaker chapel that is attached to a farmhouse and dates from the 18th century. The building is constructed of brick and has a pantile roof. It has a centrally planned rectangular shape and is a single storey high. The entrance facade is symmetrical and consists of three bays, featuring a two-leaf raised and fielded panelled door with an architrave doorcase and a flat hood supported by carved brackets. There are a pair of flanking windows beneath segmental arches. The north window frame is original and of the mullion and transom type, with two lights and a metal casement that retains its original ironmongery, along with some surviving leaded glazing. The building has a sawtooth cornice and a hipped roof.
Inside, there is a plaster vault with penetrating barrels, and a pair of galleries with simple square-section balusters. The galleries are supported by Roman Doric columns, also of square section, which have exaggerated entasis. A pulpit pew remains opposite the entrance. The adjoining farmhouse is not of special interest.
Local climate
Quaker House receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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