Friends Meeting House is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1974. Meeting house.

Friends Meeting House

WRENN ID
tired-wattle-moss
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Peak District National Park
Country
England
Date first listed
20 May 1974
Type
Meeting house
Source
Historic England listing

Description

BAKEWELL

SK2168 CHAPEL LANE 831-1/4/80 (West side (off)) 20/05/74 Friends Meeting House

II

Quaker meeting house. Dated 1852. Coursed dressed sandstone. Welsh slate roof. EXTERIOR: single storey; 3- and 2-window ranges. Plinth. Later porch between bays 2 and 3 with twinned ashlar pilasters supporting a pedimented wooden gable; ashlar side walls. The original building has large windows with projecting stone sills and wedge lintels each opening now glazed with fixed 12-pane lights beneath pivoting 8-pane openers. Centre lintel states 'ERECTED 1852'. Boxed eaves to hipped roof. Rear: various lean-tos and ashlar stack at eaves. Right return: 9-pane casements on 2 floor levels. INTERIOR: the original space now divided and gallery removed. Present meeting room retains elders' bench with panelling across front.

Listing NGR: SK2177268256

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