Garter Lane Arts Centre — O'Connell Street

Detached eight-bay two-storey Society of Friends' meeting house, built 1791, on a rectangular plan. Sold, 1972, to accommodate alternative use. Adapted to alternative use, 1985. Pithed slate roof with ridge tiles, rendered coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves with cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls on rendered plinth with rendered piers to corners. Segmental-headed door opening approached by flights of three steps with rendered surround framing timber panelled double doors having fanlight. Camber-headed window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and rendered surrounds framing four-over-eight (ground floor) or eight-over-eight (first floor) timber sash windows without horns. Interior including hall retaining timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, staircase on an Imperial plan with "spindle" balusters supporting carved timber banisters terminating in volutes, and timber surrounds to door openings to landing framing timber panelled doors. Set in relandscaped grounds.