Friends Meeting House

The Friends Meeting House, built in 1816 by Francis Webster, occupies a site incorporating the foundations of a late 17th-century predecessor. The building is constructed from hammer-dressed limestone blocks with a plinth, eaves cornice, and blocking course. It has graduated slate roofs with parallel ridges and stone end chimneys. The Stramongate elevation features a porch with a lunette above it, alongside two semicircular-headed sash windows. The New Street elevation mirrors this design with a porch featuring a lunette and four semicircular-headed sashes, and five first-floor sash windows. A tall tripartite sash window is present on the west return. Both porches have cornices, blocking courses, and panelled double doors. All windows contain glazing bars.

The interior originally comprised two rooms separated by a full-height timber partition of four elliptical-headed arches supported by panelled pilasters. This arcade was initially filled with movable panelled shutters which were later fixed in place when a classroom floor was inserted on the north side in 1934. Cast-iron columns support a gallery with turned balusters, which wraps around two sides of the south room. Internal alterations occurred in 1934, and an eastward extension was added in 1936.