Meeting-House of Religious Society of Friends is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1973. Meeting-house.

Meeting-House of Religious Society of Friends

WRENN ID
dusk-string-brook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 October 1973
Type
Meeting-house
Address
Meeting-House of Religious Society of Friends, George Street, Sherborne
OS grid reference
ST 637 168
Coordinates
50.95037, -2.5169
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Meeting-House of the Religious Society of Friends, located at 1 George Street, was built around the 18th century or early 19th century on the site of yard buildings associated with the Old George, which is referenced in the context of the George Hotel on Higher Cheap Street. The building is constructed of stone and features a new plaintile roof. It has undergone alterations over time. For further details, see G H D Pitman's "Exploring Sherborne," page 46.

Local climate

Meeting-House of Religious Society of Friends receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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