Salisbury Quaker Meeting House

The Salisbury Quaker Meeting House was originally built as a villa in the mid-19th century. It was later used as nurses’ accommodation for the Old Manor Hospital, before being altered and converted for use as a Quaker Meeting House between 2003 and 2010.

The building is constructed of painted stucco over brick, with slate roofs. A later extension is built in reconstituted stone. The plan is an L-shape, with a main range to the north and a long range running to the east, extending to the south.

The exterior is single-storey in the centre and to the right of the main elevation, with a two-storey section to the left. The two-storey range features a bowed, projecting bay with an overhanging first floor supported by Tuscan columns. This bay has a hipped, slate roof with flat eaves, and a rectangular brick ridge stack behind. The windows are pointed margin-glazed casements. To the west of the main range is an irregular, three-bay, single-storey range with a low-pitched, hipped slate roof. The wall of the wide, western bay rises into a parapet with moulded coping. The two central bays feature paired sash windows within a moulded four-centred arched frame, while to the right is a door in a similar surround, with a fanlight above. A later timber, canted bay window is also present to the right, featuring arched lights. The wide western bay contains a single window of a similar design. The western return parapet is panelled, swept to the corners, and has three rectangular gable end stacks. Two cambered-headed sash windows with glazing bars are also present. The rear, south elevation includes a canted bay window with a parapet to the left and a central section with two round-headed full-length sashes with glazing bars. A glass pentice roof, supported by tapering iron columns, extends across the central section. The eastern return extends southwards over two storeys, featuring a modified central section alongside an early 21st-century extension in reconstituted stone, incorporating a doorway and entrance to flats.

The interior consists of a large entrance lobby at the center and a modern meeting room at the west end. The meeting room has windows on two sides, and skylights in the raised central section of the ceiling. The first floor of the two-storey section is arranged as a flat.