Friends Meeting House on east side of Layer Breton Hill, fronting Layer Breton Heath and with a small burial ground to the rear (east).

Low brick walls and slate roof, built in 1827 and extended to the west in 1852. The south front has a porch with a wide doorway and reeded architrave, between two sash windows.

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http://www.bretonheath.me.uk/history/centen30.htm [accessed 13/6/16] records:

'The Friends Meeting House is referred to in "Colchester Quakers" by S.H.G. Fitch, which gives the history of the movement in this area from the seventeenth century on. The first intimation of the need to have Meeting House in Layer Breton occurred in 1821 when the Friends at Copford expressed concern that the distance of the Copford Meeting House was causing problems to those from Layer Breton wishing to attend. By 1826 it was decided to build a Meeting House in Layer Breton and to discontinue meetings at Copford. The abstract of title sets out, very precisely, that an area of one rood and ten perches in Layer Breton, recently fenced off and segregated from the rest of the field known as Greenfield, was to be used. The 1842 Tithe Map gives the area as 1 rood 16 perches and Greenfield had, by then, been split up further. By 1849 it was recorded that "The accommodation for the horses and carriages of Friends attending the Layer Breton Meeting having become insufficient, our representatives are directed to apply to the Monthly Meeting for leave to make the necessary addition". Three years later the alterations were estimated to cost £100. Various attendance census were taken and in 1909 there were 55 at one meeting and 34 at another but when it was first opened the number seems to have been 33.'