Friends Meeting House

Rectangular late Georgian meeting house. Rubble Masonry with quoins and brick window dressings; hipped slate roof. Three-window E front with sash windows, one small-pane, to meeting room; lower flat roofed entrance lobby advanced to left with later alterations, small-pane fixed glazed window and raised scribed panelled door with brick lintel in the return angel. Short small-pane sash window above to upper meeting room. Low panelled basement door with brick surround to right beside gated arched entrance with roughly dressed pedimented architrave set into high rubble and iron railed boundary wall to sloping graveyard. The wall adjoins the plain, roadside end wall of the meeting house, with date plaque and curves around to the E incorporating the N boundary of the Castle inner ward. Rear (W) side is part cement rendered, rubble exposed where gable end of a row of cottages formerly adjoined; horned sash window to upper meeting room.

Graveyard overgrown an the Meeting House rarely used at time of inspection.

Plain interior comprising tall square main meeting room to right with 2 tier dais to end wall and full height boarded and panelled screen to entrance end with doors through to narrow cross passage. Smaller upper meeting room.