NHER 19403 (Building record) - Lilac Farm, Seamere Road

January 1977. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"House. 17th century. Timber framed, roughcast, west half weatherboarded. Black glazed pantile roof with gable ends. Two storeys. West end open hall and reputed to have been Quaker's Meeting House. At time of survey, 1976, being renovated...Central vertical boarded door. Large brick chimney stack at east end rendered. Later outshut at rear.
Interior: Exposed timber framing and chamfered beams, west end open hall."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 20 February 2022.

Former Quaker meeting house 1708-1837, became a barn 1927, restored in 1983.
Began as two storeyed timber framed 17th century house; gable wall and stack in brick and flint added 1671, meeting room added at other end; one would think, at same date, but (S3) states 1708; if accurate, this is very important. Beams from elsewhere imported 1983.
In garden two medieval carved stone bases of unknown origin.
See report (S2), copy of (S3), photographs and estate agent's particulars (S4) in file.
E. Rose (NLA), 24 September 1996.

Described in (S5) as a Friends' Meeting House with timber-framed and weather-boarded structure. The meeting house is two bays in length and incorporates part of the third bay of the cottage were a gallery was also formed.
M. Langham-Lopez (HES), 18 October 2012.