The Friends Meeting House and Adjoining Cottage to West
THE FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE AND ADJOINING COTTAGE TO WEST, BRIGFLATTS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1384080
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Friends Meeting House and Adjoining Cottage to West
- Statutory Address:
- THE FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE AND ADJOINING COTTAGE TO WEST, BRIGFLATTS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1384080
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Oct-1999
- List Entry Name:
- The Friends Meeting House and Adjoining Cottage to West
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE AND ADJOINING COTTAGE TO WEST, BRIGFLATTS
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:
- THE FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE AND ADJOINING COTTAGE TO WEST, BRIGFLATTS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sedbergh
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 64089 91155
Details
SEDBERGH
SD6491 BRIGFLATTS, Marthwaite
162-1/19/378 (East side)
16/03/54 The Friends' Meeting House and
adjoining cottage to west
(Formerly Listed as:
BRIGG FLATTS
The Friends' Meeting House and
adjoining cottage to west)
GV I
Friends' Meeting House, with integral cottage. Dated 1675 on
porch; slightly altered in C18. Mixed random rubble, mostly
white-washed, graduated stone slate roof. Simple rectangular
plan on east-west axis (at right-angles to lane) with integral
1-bay cottage at west end and 2-storey porch next to junction
with this.
EXTERIOR: the cottage is 2 low storeys and the meeting house
is one storey to the same height, the whole range 1:1:3
windows, with a plinth to the main range. The cottage has one
3-light mullioned window on each floor, and a short square
gable chimney. The porch is 2-storeyed and gabled, has a
round-headed outer doorway with chamfered surround, a
square-headed inner doorway with a heavy pegged oak door and
simple wrought-iron furnishings. Over the outer doorway there
is a C20 replica of an original datestone with raised
lettering "Anno / Do / 1675" over a 5-pointed star, and at 1st
floor a round-headed 1-light window with chamfered surround
and hollow spandrels. The main range has two 3-light windows
at mid level, both with chamfered mullions and straight
stone-slate drip courses over them. To the right 2 similar
windows vertically-aligned, the upper (lighting the gallery)
without a drip-course.
INTERIOR: muntin-and-rail panelling to walls, with plain
benches; raised bench against south wall with simple panelled
front and rail with ball finials to stair top. Gallery to
north side and both ends (added 1711) supported by wooden
columns, protected by wooden turned-baluster railings and
approached by a wide wooden staircase (opposite the door) at
the foot of which wooden gates form an enclosure for
sheepdogs; west end partitioned with wooden panelling on both
levels to form Warden's cottage.
HISTORICAL NOTE: third oldest Friend's Meeting House.
Listing NGR: SD6408691159
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484512
- 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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