Friends' Meeting House is a Grade II* listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 November 1974. Meeting house.
Friends' Meeting House
- WRENN ID
- western-terrace-violet
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 21 November 1974
- Type
- Meeting house
- Address
- Friends' Meeting House, Dolobran, Meifod
- OS grid reference
- SJ 123 124
- Coordinates
- 52.70235, -3.29829
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Friends' Meeting House is a single cell building constructed of colourwashed brick in irregular bond, topped with a slate roof. Internally, it is divided into an entrance lobby at the west end, which has a loft above, and a meeting room. The attached house once featured a wooden partition that could be opened to allow the occupants to participate in the meetings.
The entrance has a 19th-century boarded door with a two-light transomed window above it. The meeting room features a larger external boarded door on the south side, which is set within a heavy frame and has external rails, all framed by a half-brick segmental arch. There are two 19th-century two-light transomed windows that replaced the original windows installed in 1747; these earlier openings were originally unglazed. All the symmetrical openings in the meeting room have a simple brick drip course that ends on brick headers.
The lobby includes a staircase leading to the upper floor and a door leading to the meeting room. The meeting room has a small gallery at the east end and a window in the east gable, which is now blocked. The gallery used to be accessed from an external stair on the north side, but only the opening remains. Furnishings from the meeting house were removed to Pennsylvania and other locations.
Local climate
Friends' Meeting House receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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