Friends Meeting House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. Meeting house.
Friends Meeting House
- WRENN ID
- young-clay-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Meeting house
- Address
- Friends Meeting House, Wetheral
- OS grid reference
- NY 441 550
- Coordinates
- 54.88718, -2.8718
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Friends Meeting House is a disused Quaker meeting house built in 1718 for the Borough and later used by the Carlisle Monthly Meeting. It features sandstone footings, brick walls, sandstone dressings, and a stone-slate roof. The building is single-storey and consists of three bays, representing a typical simple meeting house from this period. It has a sandstone plinth course and walls constructed of English garden wall bond brickwork. The entrance and windows are adorned with plain squared sandstone dressings, and the sash windows include glazing bars. There are no internal fittings since the building has not been used as a meeting house since 1913. To the south, there is a graveyard containing about 19 unusual oval grave markers that date from 1830 to 1896. Drawings and descriptions of the building can be found in David M Butler's book, "Quaker Meeting Houses of the Lake Counties," published in 1978.
Local climate
Friends Meeting House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% 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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