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
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1974
- Type
- Meeting house
- Address
- Friends Meeting House, Chapel Lane, Bakewell, Derbyshire Dales
- OS grid reference
- SK 217 682
- Coordinates
- 53.21094, -1.67545
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Friends Meeting House in Bakewell is a Quaker meeting house built in 1852. It is constructed from coursed dressed sandstone and features a Welsh slate roof. The building is single storey with a combination of three and two-window ranges and has a plinth. A later porch is located between the second and third bays, supported by twinned ashlar pilasters and topped with a pedimented wooden gable, with ashlar side walls. The original structure includes large windows with projecting stone sills and wedge lintels, each fitted with fixed 12-pane lights and pivoting 8-pane openers. A lintel at the center of the building reads 'ERECTED 1852'. The roof has boxed eaves and is hipped. At the rear, there are various lean-tos and an ashlar stack at the eaves. The right return features 9-pane casements on two levels. Inside, the original space has been divided and the gallery removed, but the current meeting room still has the elders' bench with panelling across the front.
Local climate
Friends Meeting House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% 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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