Friends Meeting House is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1986. Meeting house. 6 related planning applications.
Friends Meeting House
- WRENN ID
- empty-chimney-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1986
- Type
- Meeting house
- Address
- Friends Meeting House, Village Street, Carperby-Cum-Thoresby, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SE 005 897
- Coordinates
- 54.30334, -1.99272
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a former Friends Meeting House, dated 1864. It is constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings and has a Wesmorland slate roof. The two-storey, three-by-three bayed structure has a gable end elevation featuring chamfered rusticated ashlar quoins. The central entrance has a six-panel door with a six-panel overlight. Six-pane sash windows are present throughout. A string forms the base of a pediment-effect cyma-recta coping, within which is a plaque bearing the raised lettering "FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE 1864". An ashlar stack sits atop the apex of the gable. The building was disused at the time of resurvey.
Local climate
Friends Meeting House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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 — 4 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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