The Friends Meeting House and Adjoining Cottage to West is a Grade I listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1954. A C17 Meeting house, cottage. 1 related planning application.

The Friends Meeting House and Adjoining Cottage to West

WRENN ID
half-rampart-hawk
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Yorkshire Dales National Park
Constituency
Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 March 1954
Type
Meeting house, cottage
Address
The Friends Meeting House and Adjoining Cottage to West, LA10 5HN
OS grid reference
SD 640 911
Coordinates
54.31473, -2.55351
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Friends' Meeting House, with an adjoining cottage to the west, dates to 1675 and was slightly altered in the 18th century. Constructed of mixed random rubble, largely whitewashed, it features a graduated stone slate roof. The building follows a simple rectangular plan aligned east-west, with a one-bay cottage integrated at the western end and a two-storey porch situated next to the road junction.

The cottage is two low storeys high with a single three-light mullioned window on each floor, and a short square gable chimney. The Meeting House itself is one storey high, matching the cottage’s height, with a plinth. The front of the Meeting House has one three-light window at mid-level on the left, a further two aligned vertically to the right, the upper window serving the gallery and lacking a drip-course. The porch is two storeys and gabled, featuring a round-headed outer doorway with a chamfered surround, and a square-headed inner doorway with a heavy pegged oak door and simple wrought-iron furnishings. A 20th-century replica datestone, featuring the letters "Anno / Do / 1675" above a five-pointed star, sits above the outer doorway, while a round-headed one-light window with a chamfered surround and hollow spandrels is positioned at the first floor.

Inside, the walls are panelled with muntin-and-rail construction, with plain benches. A raised bench sits against the south wall, featuring a simple panelled front and a rail with ball finials at the stair top. Galleries were added in 1711 to the north side and both ends, supported by wooden columns with wooden turned-baluster railings, and accessed by a wide wooden staircase opposite the main door. Wooden gates at the foot of the staircase create an enclosure for sheepdogs. The west end of the building is partitioned with wooden panelling on both levels to form a Warden’s cottage. This is the third oldest Friends' Meeting House.

Local climate

The Friends Meeting House and Adjoining Cottage to West sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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