Friends' Meeting House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1967. House.
Friends' Meeting House
- WRENN ID
- small-roof-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Friends' Meeting House, Dean
- OS grid reference
- NY 093 280
- Coordinates
- 54.63925, -3.40644
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Friends' Meeting House, now a private house, was built in 1711, as noted by the inscription above the entrance stating "JOHN BARN GAVE 40£ TO BUILD THIS HOUSE." The building features painted roughcast walls and is topped with a rebuilt graduated greenslate roof that includes 20th-century roof lights and a brick chimney stack. It is a single-storey structure with three bays and an integral former stable. The entrance has a 20th-century door set within the original stone surround, and there are 20th-century casement windows in two-light stone-mullioned frames. To the left, there is another 20th-century door. The rear of the building includes a slated 20th-century porch and similar two-light windows. The former stable area has been adapted to include garage doors. For further details, see D.M. Butler's "Quaker Meeting Houses of the Lake Counties," published in 1978, pages 57-60.
Local climate
Friends' Meeting House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,510 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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