Friends Meeting House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1973. Meeting house. 1 related planning application.
Friends Meeting House
- WRENN ID
- pitched-balcony-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1973
- Type
- Meeting house
- Address
- Friends Meeting House, Paul's Terrace, Truro, TR1 1HD
- OS grid reference
- SW 826 451
- Coordinates
- 50.26657, -5.05087
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Friends Meeting House is a meeting house built in 1825 for Mr. Tweedy. It features a freestone ashlar porch, while the rest of the building is constructed from dressed coursed local stone. The main roof is hipped and covered with asbestos slate, and the porch has a grouted scantle slate roof. The building has a rectangular plan and is a single storey. The front has a four-window range with a plinth, a central flat-roofed porch, a moulded wooden eaves cornice, and shallow segmental arches with projecting keystones above the original 30-pane hornless sash windows. There is a wide doorway on the right side of the porch. The right-hand end serves as an entrance front with a two-window range, featuring similar but copied sashes, and the porch has a doorway on its left side.
Inside, the meeting house was slightly altered in the 1980s but still retains the original panelled minister's gallery, which has steps with ramped handrails at either end, as well as original vertically-sliding panelled screens on either side of the entrance hall.
Local climate
Friends Meeting House receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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