Museum
MUSEUM, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1035417
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Museum
- Statutory Address:
- MUSEUM, MARKET PLACE
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- Date:
- 2002-10-04
- Reference:
- IOE01/09398/12
- Rights:
- © Helmut Schulenburg. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1035417
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Museum
- Statutory Address 1:
- MUSEUM, MARKET PLACE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MUSEUM, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Warwick (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Warwick
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 28022 64924
Details
1. 1781 MARKET PLACE Museum SP 2864 NW 1/308 10.1.53.
II*
2. Late C17 2 storey Market Hall of local sandstone ashlar work 3 bays wide and 5 bays long. Lower storey was originally an open market place with continuous semi-circular-headed arcade, but circa 1880 this was filled in with incongruous windows and plain boarded door. String band at first floor. Moulded architraves to window openings on upper floor, which now have satisfactory sashes in cased frames of (?) early C19 date. Heavy, moulded stone cornice at eaves with modillions. Hipped tile roof has been much restored. Existing (probably C19) lantern in Roman cement, replaces an earlier cupola. Pedimented dormers, wooden balustrade to central flat roof round cupola. AM.
Listing NGR: SP2802264924
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 307546
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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