Friends Meeting House is a Grade II* listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1952. Meeting house. 1 related planning application.
Friends Meeting House
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-flint-dew
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1952
- Type
- Meeting house
- Address
- Friends Meeting House, Meeting House Lane, Yatton, BS49 4PB
- OS grid reference
- ST 452 662
- Coordinates
- 51.39298, -2.78818
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Friends' Meeting House is a building with origins in the 17th century, rebuilt in 1729, and has undergone alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a rubble exterior with rendered surfaces and limestone dressings, topped by a pantiled roof that is hipped over the side wings. The structure is arranged in a U-plan with a central hall and is two storeys tall, displaying a façade with one central bay flanked by three bays on each side.
The central three bays include a semi-circular-headed chamfered door opening with a keystone and imposts, leading to large panelled double doors. Above the doors is a 6-pane light set in a similar surround. Each side of the entrance features a round-headed 18-pane sash window, which has thick glazing bars and is splayed at the head, with similar imposts and keystones. The moulded cills of the side windows rise to a moulded string course, and above the central window is an oblong stone pediment with a cornice that supports a pedestal featuring a square-block sundial topped by a stone "torch" finial. The base of the sundial has an incised inscription stating "THIS HOUSE REBUILT IN THE YEAR 1729".
Each side wing is set forward and contains a 2-light casement window on both the ground and first floors, along with a half-glazed door on the inner side. Tall square stacks rise from each front angle of the building, one of which has a moulded cap, and the inside face of each stack curves to the eaves. The left return features two 2-light casement windows with three panes each, while the right return mirrors this with a buttress on the left. The rear of the building has small single-storey 20th-century lean-tos on both sides, each with a half-glazed door and a 20th-century light on the inner side. The first floor at the rear includes two 2-light casement windows and a central 20-pane sash window under the eaves, all with thin glazing bars.
The interior was not accessible at the time of the survey in April 1985, but it appears to retain original panelling in the central hall.
Local climate
Friends Meeting House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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