RED HOUSE MUSEUM

RED HOUSE MUSEUM, QUAY ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1110072
Date first listed:: 14-Oct-1953
List Entry Name:: RED HOUSE MUSEUM
Statutory Address:: RED HOUSE MUSEUM, QUAY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1110072
Date first listed:: 14-Oct-1953
Date of most recent amendment:: 12-Feb-1976
List Entry Name:: RED HOUSE MUSEUM
Statutory Address 1:: RED HOUSE MUSEUM, QUAY ROAD

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:: RED HOUSE MUSEUM, QUAY ROAD

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

District:: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Christchurch
National Grid Reference:: SZ 15890 92560

Details

QUAY ROAD 1. (South West Side) 5187 Red House Museum (formerly listed as The Red House and Red House Cottage) SZ 1592 1A/11 14.10.53.

II* GV

2. 1764. Originally built as Christchurch Workhouse. Red brick with grey headers, eaves cornice and tiled roof. 2 storeys with 4 hipped dormers above, 10 windows casements with square leaded quarrels, 2 doorways with hoods supported on brackets. 6 panelled doors. Northern doorway has broken scroll pediment and rectangular fanlight.

Nos 1 and 2 form a group with the Red House Museum, its Art Gallery and Picture Store, the Museum Garden Wall and the Churchyard Walls and Vicarage. This group is also associated with that on Church Lane.

Listing NGR: SZ1588292570

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Legacy System number:: 101619
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.