FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE

FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, 36, HIGH STREET, BA16 0EB

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1308052
Date first listed:: 08-Nov-1949
List Entry Name:: FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE
Statutory Address:: FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, 36, HIGH STREET, BA16 0EB

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Date:: 2002-04-22
Reference:: IOE01/06752/13
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1308052
Date first listed:: 08-Nov-1949
List Entry Name:: FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, 36, HIGH STREET, BA16 0EB

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

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, 36, HIGH STREET, BA16 0EB

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Street
National Grid Reference:: ST 48502 36935

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 06/10/2016

ST 43 NE, 10/70

STREET C.P., HIGH STREET (North side), Friends Meeting House

8.11.49

G.V.

II

Quaker Meeting House. 1850 on an earlier site, by J. Francis Cotterell of Bath. Blue lias ashlar, that to plinth quarry-faced, emphasised rusticated quoins, moulded stone eaves cornice, hipped slate roof with wide eaves, louvred square cupola to roof ridge with pyramidal lead capping and spirelet. Rectangular on plan, plain elevations. Two storey frontages; entrance frontage of 2:3 bays, tall 20-pane sash windows with cambered heads. Door opening between the bay sets; paired 2-panelled doors; projecting Tuscan portico, triangular pediment; further door opening to right, 4-panelled door; 16-pane sash windows with cambered heads on 2 floors to frontage facing High Street; door opening, 4-panelled door. Simple interior divided into 2 large rooms with panelled divider, room to North with bench, dado panelling.

(McGarvie M., Guide to Historic Street, (unpublished))

Listing NGR: ST4850236935

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