Friends Meeting House, Newry Street, Rathfriland, Newry, Co Down, BT34 5PY

This is a single-storey timber-framed building dating to the late 19th century, built between 1900 and 1919. It is situated at the north end of an earlier churchyard, on the south side of Newry Street, in Rathfriland, County Down. It stands alongside the Old Quaker Meeting House (HB16/08/020).

The building is oriented north-south and comprises five openings. It is clad in corrugated metal with a pitched roof, painted green, featuring two ventilation pipes and a flue pipe. The roof incorporates flat timber skews, projecting plain bargeboards with timber finials, and matching eaves boards supporting half-rounded plastic rainwater goods. The walls are of unpainted galvanised corrugated metal, set upon a concrete plinth and with decorative ventilation grilles visible on the west side. The south gable is blank. Five windows are present on the west elevation, and two on the north gable. All windows are timber, with a 1/1 top-hung design, timber cills, and external grilles. The east elevation mirrors the west, but includes a projecting porch in place of the fourth window from the left; this porch is also roofed with corrugated metal, with a leaded ridge and plain timber bargeboard, and has plastic rainwater goods on plain eaves boards. The east gable has a timber entrance door with a modern light fixture above, flanked by narrow fixed timber windows with timber cills and external grilles.

The building was constructed during a revival in Quakerism in 1898, when a preceding rubble granite stone Quaker meeting house was closed following the death of Mr Joseph Murphy. Originally timber sheeted, the building was reclad after the Second World War, according to a local resident.