The Quaker Meeting house is a grade II listed property in Askwith North Yorkshire. The house dates back to the early C18th and is constructed from grit stone with a Welsh slated roof. The house is a typical gable ended structure with stone mullioned windows. Over the past 30 years, several alterations (rear extension, dormer and Velux windows) have changed the form and look of the original Quaker Meeting House.

The clients wanted to remove all these new additions and transform the house back to what it would have looked like, externally and internally when it was originally built in the C18th. This would entail removing the dormer and Velux windows, rear extension and internal build up (walls and ceiling) and reinstate the historically correct double height open plan.

The reinstatement of this historical plan meant that all the existing living accommodation on the first floor (bedrooms and bathroom) were now absent from the house. Our role was to work with the Heritage and Planning officers to sell the clients vision of transforming the house back to an historical asset and working with them to find the best location on site for the new bedrooms and bathroom.

The scheme now reveals the original Quaker Meeting House as originally intended with a subservient gable ended structure at the rear, housing the new accommodation. (bedrooms and bathroom) The original house, now double heighted open plan, houses a new kitchen and large living room. The new rear extension is made from corten steel to match the brown hues found in the grit stone of the original house and local landscape.