Friends Meeting House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 November 1949. Meeting house. 5 related planning applications.
Friends Meeting House
- WRENN ID
- odd-trefoil-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 November 1949
- Type
- Meeting house
- Address
- Friends Meeting House, 36, High Street, BA16 0EB
- OS grid reference
- ST 485 369
- Coordinates
- 51.12936, -2.73732
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Friends Meeting House is a Quaker meeting house built in 1850 on an earlier site, designed by J. Francis Cotterell of Bath. It is constructed of blue lias ashlar, with the plinth being quarry-faced and featuring rusticated quoins. The building has a moulded stone eaves cornice and a hipped slate roof with wide eaves. At the roof ridge, there is a louvred square cupola topped with a pyramidal lead capping and a spirelet. The structure is rectangular in plan with plain elevations and two storey frontages.
The entrance frontage consists of two sets of three bays, featuring tall 20-pane sash windows with cambered heads. The main door opening is situated between the bay sets and includes paired 2-panelled doors beneath a projecting Tuscan portico with a triangular pediment. To the right, there is another door opening with a 4-panelled door. The frontage facing High Street has 16-pane sash windows with cambered heads on both floors, along with an additional door opening that also has a 4-panelled door.
Inside, the simple layout is divided into two large rooms separated by a panelled divider, with the northern room featuring a bench and dado panelling.
Local climate
Friends Meeting House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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