Friends Meeting House is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 March 1978. Meeting house. 1 related planning application.

Friends Meeting House

WRENN ID
second-lantern-spindle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 March 1978
Type
Meeting house
Address
Friends Meeting House, the Ginnell, Skipton, BD23 2JA
OS grid reference
SD 991 515
Coordinates
53.95999, -2.01487
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Friends Meeting House is a plain, low single-storey building that dates back to 1693. It is cement-rendered and features two windows along with a central door that has a lintel inscribed with the date. The roof is made of stone slate, complete with copings and springers, and there is a chimney located at the peak of the west gable. Inside, the building has panelled partitions and an elders' bench.

Local climate

Friends Meeting House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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