The Friends Meeting House, including boundary wall with doorway and ironwork gates plus railings is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 February 1993. Meeting house.
The Friends Meeting House, including boundary wall with doorway and ironwork gates plus railings
- WRENN ID
- far-chalk-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Constituency
- Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1993
- Type
- Meeting house
- Address
- The Friends Meeting House, including boundary wall with doorway and ironwork gates plus railings, Milford Haven
- OS grid reference
- SM 903 060
- Coordinates
- 51.71422, -5.03593
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Friends Meeting House is a single-storey building constructed with unpainted roughcast and features a slate hipped eaves roof. It has a small-scale design with a later added centre porch and one window on each side. The roof has swept eaves and a boarded soffit. The windows are large, cambered-headed 24-pane sashes with stone sills, with two matching windows on the rear wall. The centre porch is gabled and bargeboarded, featuring a cambered-headed doorway with double doors and a cambered-headed 6-pane window above, set under a short stone shelf.
The front wall facing the road is made of red rubble stone with roughcast on the road front, and it includes a camber-headed doorway with 'Friends Meeting House' inscribed in raised letters. Inside, there is a small semi-circular enclosure with roughcast dwarf walls, spearhead iron railings, and a centre spearhead gate with openwork iron gatepiers supported by four urn-capped iron stanchions, which likely mark the original entry.
Within the porch, there are two fielded-panel doors that reflect the internal arrangement. The northern and southern parts of the meeting house were originally divided by a movable screen, which has since been made solid. The interior features a deep coved ceiling with a modest cornice. The northern end contains the original elders' gallery, which includes a raised dais with a simple bench and high back panelling, accessed by centre steps with fielded panelled fronts on each side. The steps have turned newels and ramped rails, with benches on each side against the dais front, featuring end armrests. Five original open-back benches remain, some with added mid-rails. In the southern section, there is some original panelling and a fireplace on the southern wall.
Local climate
The Friends Meeting House, including boundary wall with doorway and ironwork gates plus railings sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 2 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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