Friends Meeting House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 April 1967. Meeting house. 2 related planning applications.
Friends Meeting House
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-rafter-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 April 1967
- Type
- Meeting house
- Address
- Friends Meeting House, West Street, Wigton, CA7 9NP
- OS grid reference
- NY 253 483
- Coordinates
- 54.82416, -3.16333
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Friends Meeting House, dated 1830 over the side entrance, is likely designed by William Alderson. It is constructed of snecked red sandstone ashlar and features a heavy cornice and broad angle pilasters on a chamfered plinth. The building has a hipped slate roof and is a single-storey structure with a three-bay facade. It includes large sash windows with glazing bars set in eared pilastered surrounds. Flanking the facade are incised rendered screen walls that contain panelled doors in pilastered surrounds; the door on the left provides access to the graveyard, while the door on the right leads to two side entrances under a colonnade supported by slender cast-iron columns. There is also a two-storey, single-bay extension to the right, which has external stone steps leading to a former upper-floor schoolroom. For further details, see David M. Butler's "Quaker Meeting Houses of the Lake Counties," published in 1978, pages 23-28.
Local climate
Friends Meeting House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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