OLD MUSEUM ROOMS

OLD MUSEUM ROOMS, 13, MUSEUM STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1037718
Date first listed:: 19-Dec-1951
List Entry Name:: OLD MUSEUM ROOMS
Statutory Address:: OLD MUSEUM ROOMS, 13, MUSEUM STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1037718
Date first listed:: 19-Dec-1951
List Entry Name:: OLD MUSEUM ROOMS
Statutory Address 1:: OLD MUSEUM ROOMS, 13, MUSEUM STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: OLD MUSEUM ROOMS, 13, MUSEUM STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Suffolk
District:: Ipswich (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TM 16085 44605

Details

1. 1260 MUSEUM STREET (East Side)

No 13 (Old Museum Rooms) TM 1644 NW 1/124 19.12.51.

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2. The old Museum, opened in 1847 was designed by Christopher Fleury, a local architect. It is a large red brick building with a stucco front in classical style with panelled parapet, a plain band (which now replaces the original cornice) and massive Tuscan orders on octagonal base rising through 2 storeys at the corners. 2 storeys. 3 window range, double-hung sashes with glazing bars. The centre part, of doorway and one window range above, breaks forward slightly. The side windows have moulded and shouldered architraves with balustraded panels beneath the sills. The centre window has a Venetian style surround with a semi-circular domed arch with shell ornamentation and flanking paired Ionic columns with frieze and cornice. The doorway has fluted Doric pilasters, frieze and cornice, and is flanked by C20 shop fronts. The front originally has a projecting Doric columned porch. The north side is in panelled red brick, without windows. In the interior a heavy balustraded staircase leads to a 1st floor hall which is top lit with a gallery (blocked).

Nos 1 to 11 (odd) and No 13 (Old Museum Rooms) form a group with No 10. Nos 14 to 32 (even) and Nos 14 and 16, Arcade Street.

Listing NGR: TM1608544605

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Legacy System number:: 275514
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.