Quaker Meeting House is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 July 1986. Meeting house. 4 related planning applications.
Quaker Meeting House
- WRENN ID
- small-doorway-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 July 1986
- Type
- Meeting house
- Address
- Quaker Meeting House, Countersett, Bainbridge, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SD 919 879
- Coordinates
- 54.28702, -2.12553
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Quaker Meeting House, built in 1710, is a single-storey structure located in Bainbridge, Countersett. It is constructed of rubble with a stone slate roof and features three windows. The building has quoins and dripmoulds over its openings. To the right, there is a board door, and the windows are sash style with glazing bars.
Inside, the meeting house has a dado of fielded panels and a panelled elders' gallery, along with simple benches. This building was established after illicit Quaker meetings had taken place in Countersett Hall and Carr End.
Local climate
Quaker Meeting House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 63 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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