Former Quaker Meeting House Behind Numbers 87 and 89 High Street
FORMER QUAKER MEETING HOUSE BEHIND NUMBERS 87 AND 89 HIGH STREET, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253660
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Former Quaker Meeting House Behind Numbers 87 and 89 High Street
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER QUAKER MEETING HOUSE BEHIND NUMBERS 87 AND 89 HIGH STREET, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253660
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Former Quaker Meeting House Behind Numbers 87 and 89 High Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER QUAKER MEETING HOUSE BEHIND NUMBERS 87 AND 89 HIGH STREET, HIGH STREET
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER QUAKER MEETING HOUSE BEHIND NUMBERS 87 AND 89 HIGH STREET, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Needham Market
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 08786 55052
Details
NEEDHAM MARKET HIGH STREET (WEST) TM 0855
3/89 Former Quaker Meeting House behind Nos.87 and 9.12.55 89 High Street (formerly listed as part of No 87 and No 89 (Old Friends Meeting House ))
- II
Former Quaker Meeting House, now a store. Circa 1772 with C19 alterations. Mainly timber-framed and pebble-dashed. Slated roof (the west face re- finished in asbestos sheeting). A gable chimney of gault brick. Mainly small-pane sashes, perhaps renewed early C19. A pair of entrance doors each having 2 fielded panels, with an open porch, also original, but altered and roofed in corrugated iron; a central post in the form of a pilaster. The meeting room is little-altered, with horizontal beaded boarding and a deep loft; the balustrading was renewed C20 but a part of the staircase remains. The room beneath has a little original joinery including a screen with hatchways to the main room. The approach to the Meeting House is lined by C18 and C19 graves of the Alexander and Maw families; the headstones now rest against adjacent outbuildings. A History of Needham Market: Hugh Pagett, C.B.E.,1984.
Listing NGR: TM0878655052
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436921
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pagett, H, A History of Needham Market, (1984)
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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