Former Friends Meeting House is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1974. Meeting house, dental surgery. 2 related planning applications.
Former Friends Meeting House
- WRENN ID
- floating-span-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1974
- Type
- Meeting house, dental surgery
- Address
- Former Friends Meeting House, Former Friends Meeting House (Mint Dental), Rydal Road, Lakes, Westmorland and Furness, LA22 9AN
- OS grid reference
- NY 376 046
- Coordinates
- 54.43352, -2.96313
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Friends Meeting House, now a dental surgery, is located on Rydal Road in Ambleside. This building dates back to the 19th century and stands opposite Mill Cottage. It is constructed of roughcast stone rubble and features a slate roof with three storeys. The entrance consists of a centre flush-panelled and studded door, topped with a horizontal fanlight, all set within a rusticated stone frame that includes a cornice. The ground floor has two sash windows, while the first floor has three 16-paned sashes, and the top floor has three 9-paned sashes, all with sills. For group reference, see the general group description under Rydal Road.
Local climate
Former Friends Meeting House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,530 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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 EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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