Erewash Museum

EREWASH MUSEUM, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1205567
Date first listed:
06-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:
Erewash Museum
Statutory Address:
EREWASH MUSEUM, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1205567
Date first listed:
06-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:
Erewash Museum
Statutory Address 1:
EREWASH MUSEUM, HIGH STREET

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
EREWASH MUSEUM, HIGH STREET

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

County:
Derbyshire
District:
Erewash (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SK 46626 41803

Details

PARISH OF ILKESTON HIGH STREET SK 4641 NW 7/41 (West Side) Erewash Museum II

Town house, now museum. Late C18 and c1860. Red brick with painted stone dressings. Welsh slate roof with brick gable stacks, external to south. Dentil eaves cornice. Three storeys. Three bay east elevation. The ground floor has a flat roofed projection of the 1860s, with four segment headed windows with plain sashes. Coped parapet and railings. The first floor has a central blind round arched window with keyblocks. Flanked on each side by Venetian windows with keyblocks and glazing bar sashes. The top floor has a similar blind window in the centre, flanked by Diocletian windows with glazing bar sashes and keyblocks. C19 service wing to right not of special interest. The interior has an C18 staircase with turned balusters and ramped handrail. The ground floor room in the south east corner has a rich Victorian plaster ceiling and frieze and robust marble high Victorian chimneypiece. Several plainer Victorian chimneypieces and late C19 chimneypieces and fielded panelled doors.

Listing NGR: SK4662641803

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Legacy System number:
352244
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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