Friends Meeting House is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1954. Meeting house.

Friends Meeting House

WRENN ID
grim-rafter-cream
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 February 1954
Type
Meeting house
Address
Friends Meeting House, Church Street, Whitby
OS grid reference
NZ 900 110
Coordinates
54.48701, -0.61165
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Friends Meeting House, built in 1813, is located on the west side of Church Street. It was constructed on the site of an earlier meeting house from 1676. The building is made of ashlar stone and features a plain pediment with a round window, along with two round-headed windows that have architraves and two blank segmental-headed panels beneath them. The sides of the building are plain. The Friends Meeting House, along with Nos 159, 160, and Nos 162 to 164, forms a group of listed buildings.

Local climate

Friends Meeting House receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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