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Latitude: 53.5633 / 53°33'48"N
Longitude: -1.6809 / 1°40'51"W
OS Eastings: 421232
OS Northings: 407461
OS Grid: SE212074
Mapcode National: GBR JWP7.WC
Mapcode Global: WHCBH.4PTM
Plus Code: 9C5WH879+8J
Entry Name: Friends Meeting House
Listing Date: 29 March 1965
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1313329
English Heritage Legacy ID: 341320
ID on this website: 101313329
Location: High Flatts, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, HD8
County: Kirklees
Civil Parish: Denby Dale
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Denby St John the Evangelist
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Quaker meeting house
SE 20 NW PENISTONE ROAD
High Flatts
4/48
Friends Meeting House
29.3.65
G.V. II
Quaker Meeting House. Probably early C19, though earlier origin. Hammer
dressed stone. Quoins. Stone slate roof with paired gutter brackets.
Thinly coursed rubble to rear, part of earlier building. Good ashlar
stack with cornice. Tall single storey meeting room, two storeys to
left. 4 bays with large 24-pane sash windows with crown glass. Square
stone porch with single stone slab roof. Double, panelled door with
semi-circular fanlight with radial glazing bars. Reset door lintel at
rear inscribed: B
J E
1697
Interior: the meeting room has contemporary furniture. Loose benches
arranged around centre. At front, tiers of fixed benches with fielded
panelled backs. Gallery at rear with similar panelled front and
shutters, on two cast iron columns. Central wrought iron candelabra.
1st meeting said to have been founded by John Firth circa 1700.
Listing NGR: SE2123207461
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