Society of Friends Meeting House
SOCIETY OF FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, OVERTON BANK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268552
- Date first listed:
- 13-Apr-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Society of Friends Meeting House
- Statutory Address:
- SOCIETY OF FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, OVERTON BANK
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268552
- Date first listed:
- 13-Apr-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Society of Friends Meeting House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOCIETY OF FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, OVERTON BANK
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:
- SOCIETY OF FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, OVERTON BANK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Leek
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 98199 56560
Details
LEEK
SJ9856NW OVERTON BANK 611-1/4/102 Society of Friends Meeting House 13/04/51
II
Society of Friends meeting house, apparently purpose built. c1694. Roughly coursed and squared stone with plain-tiled roof. L-plan, with advanced wing to left (its gable wall refronted) containing staircase. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Off-centre door with 16-pane sash window above, both with flat stone lintels. Main body of meeting house has 3-window range, but most of the windows now blocked. Horizontal openings, possibly originally mullioned, with sash windows of 8 and 12 lights in left-hand windows, the others blocked. Blocked doorway to left of centre, with heavy chamfered lintel. Plain string course and quoins to former window openings. Similar blocked doorway in gable wall, and blocked 3-light mullioned window to its right. Tall upper window a later insertion (16-pane sash). Similar window openings in rear wall, all now sashes with heavy stone heads and quoins. Coped gables, and moulded string course. INTERIOR: stone staircase in advanced wing, the former galleried meeting room now subdivided under the gallery, which is itself now screened off with wood panelling. Meeting room has raised dais at one end, with dado panelling. The meeting house was used by the Labour Church in the late C19-early C20, and contains murals by Walter Crane which have been painted over.
Listing NGR: SJ9819956560
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461676
- 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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