NHER 12036 (Building record) - Former Friends' Meeting House, Chapel Lane

December 1950. Listed, Grade II.

Former Friends' Meeting House, now a house. 1687. Red brick, windows in flat arches.
Details from Listing.
Information from record card (S1).

February 1978. Building Survey.
NARG survey.
Rear of building seems original, but front walls seem of later brick, though bonded in. Roof is on collars, not stretching full length of building but supported on two pillars at rear, one of which now removed. Galleries removed. Furnishings sent to Earlham Quaker College, America, in early 19th century. Caretakers' house adjoins. All now converted to a house with much alteration and loss of most of interest of building.
See report (S2) for further details. Information from record card (S1).

Now a house. 1687. Red brick, windows in flat arches.
Information from Listing (S3).

However revised listing of building 1994 (S3) states that the original building was timber-framed and that the brick skin is early 19th century, as is the attached house. Three principal studs remain, now freestanding due to later outshut, and with straight bracing at corners. Are these the posts referred to in the NARG report, and if so how does the difference in number signify?
Compiled by E. Rose (NLA), 10 May 1994.

See (S4) for more information.
M. Langham-Lopez (HES), 6 December 2012.

Excerpt of current Listing Description:
"Chapel, now private residence. 1687. Timber-framed with early 19th-century brick skin. Early 19th-century whitewashed brick house abuts to west. Pantiles and concrete tiles. Chapel of one storey in three bays. Central 20th-century glazed door within timber case and flat hood...Gabled roof. Stack to rear roof slope. Rear with a full height outshut. House to west of two storeys...Central ground-floor window blocks former doorway. Dentil eaves cornice below gabled roof. Internal gable-end stack to west.
INTERIOR. Chapel retains three principal studs to north, now free-standing owing to outshut space to north. One tier staggered butt purlins visible. Collars. Straight bracing to corner studs."
Information from (S3).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S3) for the full listing details.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 19 March 2022.