The Pales (Quaker Meeting House)

Single-storey, rubble stone with dressed quoins. Central enclosed porch, thatched roofs. Double boarded door to porch under cambered arch. Four small-paned timber casements, modern windows in original openings.

From the porch seperate six-panel doors, one marked 1745, the other 1825, give access to the meeting-room and the former schoolroom. The latter was originally designated as a room for womens' business meetings. The partition wall between the two rooms has three large openings in it, closed by boarded and battened shutters hinged top and bottom with strap hinges. The meeting room has a modern boarded floor, raised dais with Elders and Overseers benches, the front one with balustrated back, the rear one against the east wall with a modern panelled back. The schoolroom has part flagstone, part tile floor and C19 open fireplace with timber surround.