March and District Museum

MARCH AND DISTRICT MUSEUM, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1216222
Date first listed:
22-Feb-1985
List Entry Name:
March and District Museum
Statutory Address:
MARCH AND DISTRICT MUSEUM, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1216222
Date first listed:
22-Feb-1985
List Entry Name:
March and District Museum
Statutory Address 1:
MARCH AND DISTRICT 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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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:
MARCH AND DISTRICT MUSEUM, HIGH STREET

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

County:
Cambridgeshire
District:
Fenland (District Authority)
Parish:
March
National Grid Reference:
TL 41630 96482

Details

TL 4196 MARCH HIGH STREET (West Side)

23/29 March and District Museum

II

School, now a museum. c1850. Carstone slate walls with gault brick and Ketton dressings. Steeply pitched slate roof with louvre ventilation of lead. Tall end stacks of two linked shafts. School hall of one storey with two four-light cross-frame casements in square heads with dripmoulds. Central doorway in four centred arch and above a raised gable having a stone tablet with scroll and inscription "Erected by the Trustees of March Consolidated Charities". Cross-wing of two storeys with two-storey bay to the front.

Listing NGR: TL4163096482

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Legacy System number:
401550
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.

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