Friends' Meeting House and Cottage Adjoining to South West

FRIENDS' MEETING HOUSE AND COTTAGE ADJOINING TO SOUTH WEST, BACK LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1072245
Date first listed:
16-Nov-1983
List Entry Name:
Friends' Meeting House and Cottage Adjoining to South West
Statutory Address:
FRIENDS' MEETING HOUSE AND COTTAGE ADJOINING TO SOUTH WEST, BACK LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1072245
Date first listed:
16-Nov-1983
List Entry Name:
Friends' Meeting House and Cottage Adjoining to South West
Statutory Address 1:
FRIENDS' MEETING HOUSE AND COTTAGE ADJOINING TO SOUTH WEST, BACK LANE

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:
FRIENDS' MEETING HOUSE AND COTTAGE ADJOINING TO SOUTH WEST, BACK LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Lancashire
District:
Ribble Valley (District Authority)
Parish:
Newton
National Grid Reference:
SD 69517 50414

Details

SD 6950
18/44

NEWTON,
BACK LANE,
Friends' Meeting House and cottage adjoining to south-west

II

Quaker meeting house, 1767. Slobbered limestone rubble with sandstone
dressings. The front of the roof has blue slates, the rear pitch having
stone slates. One and 2 storeys, with a cellar under the right-hand
(north-east) end. The windows are of lights with plain stone surrounds
and square mullions. The cottage is of one bay and 2 storeys with a door
to the right with plain stone surround and hood of 2 pitched stone slates.
Above is a plaque with a moulded border: 'TBM 1767'. The meeting house,
to the right, is of 3 bays with bays one and 2 having windows on the ground
floor only. The windows to the right-hand bay have small panes. The door,
between bays one and 2, has a plain stone surround and a hood of 2 pitched
stone slates. The cellar door, at the right-hand end, has a plain stone
surround. At the rear of the cottage there is a later outshut. Interior.
Against the rear wall is a raised bench with a front of raised and fielded
panels. The right-hand end is divided from the main room by a wall of raised
and fielded panelling. Above this end is a gallery. The panels between the
room beneath and the main room open as shutters.


Listing NGR: SD6951750414

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
183095
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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