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Friends Meeting House, Newbury, Historic Building Record |
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Architectural History Practice Ltd unpublished report series
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Report (in Series)
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Abstract: |
The meeting house is a large, detached house of 1922, currently under threat of demolition. It has low heritage significance. Evidential value: The building is unlikely to reveal any unique evidence about the past. It has low evidential value. Historical value: The meeting house was the first of several houses built in the 1920s in Highfield Avenue. It has low historical value. Aesthetic value: The building has several features typical of the period, such as half-timbered gables. It has low aesthetic value. Communal value: The meeting house has been used by Quakers and the local community for 60 years. It has high communal value. |
Author: |
Johanna Roethe
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Publisher: |
Architectural History Practice Ltd
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Other Person/Org: |
Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
West Berkshire HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2015
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Friends Meeting House, Highfield Avenue |
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Berkshire |
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West Berkshire |
Parish: |
NEWBURY |
Country: |
England |
Grid Reference: 447194, 166829 (Easting, Northing)
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architec1-241742 |
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Created Date: |
01 Feb 2018 |