Friends Meeting House is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1951. Meeting house.
Friends Meeting House
- WRENN ID
- worn-pillar-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1951
- Type
- Meeting house
- Address
- Friends Meeting House, Turn Lane, Woodbridge
- OS grid reference
- TM 271 489
- Coordinates
- 52.09244, 1.31437
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Friends Meeting House is a building that dates back to 1678, with significant alterations made in the 18th century. The structure includes an early part that was incorporated into a larger building, which is now fronted with stucco and lined to resemble ashlar, while the rear is made of red brick. The roof is tiled.
Inside, the Hall features two large sash windows set in flush frames and has a gallery with a panelled balustrade. A staircase with spiral balusters leads up from the hall. The older section of the building retains leaded mullion transom casements. Bernard Barton, who served as Clerk to the Meeting for 40 years, is buried in the adjoining graveyard.
Friends Meeting House, along with Nos 1 to 4, forms a group of listed buildings.
Local climate
Friends Meeting House 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 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1995
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