Friends Meeting House is a Grade II* listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 December 1955. Quaker meeting house.
Friends Meeting House
- WRENN ID
- nether-cloister-root
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1955
- Type
- Quaker meeting house
- Address
- Friends Meeting House, Horn Hill Road, Adderbury
- OS grid reference
- SP 465 353
- Coordinates
- 52.01422, -1.32359
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Friends Meeting House is a Quaker meeting house built in 1675 for Bray Doyley. It is constructed of coursed squared marlstone with some ashlar dressings and wooden lintels, topped with a concrete plain-tile roof that features a rebuilt ashlar gable stack. The building is a single range, one storey plus loft galleries. The symmetrical front has a central doorway with double doors, flanked by large three-light leaded casements, all featuring stop-chamfered lintels. The right end and both gables also have similar casements. The steep-pitched roof has stone gable parapets with moulded projecting kneelers, and the stack is located to the left, with a renewed datestone inscribed "1675." A central gabled dormer has a moulded cornice above a two-light leaded casement.
Inside, there is a stone-paved floor with a dais along the rear wall, an 18th-century matchboard dado with fixed perimeter benches, and a winder stair leading to a three-sided gallery supported by chamfered beams and a simple slat balustrade. The interior retains late 17th-century to early 18th-century pine benches, making it an unusual survival.
Local climate
Friends Meeting House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% 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 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% 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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