Museum

MUSEUM, 6, CHURCH CLOSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1264764
Date first listed:
24-Feb-1950
List Entry Name:
Museum
Statutory Address:
MUSEUM, 6, CHURCH CLOSE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1264764
Date first listed:
24-Feb-1950
Date of most recent amendment:
24-Jun-1983
List Entry Name:
Museum
Statutory Address 1:
MUSEUM, 6, CHURCH CLOSE

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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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:
MUSEUM, 6, CHURCH CLOSE

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

County:
Hampshire
District:
Test Valley (District Authority)
Parish:
Andover
National Grid Reference:
SU 36612 45790

Details

SU 3645 NE
4/23
24.2.50

ANDOVER
CHURCH CLOSE FORMERLY NEW STREET
No 6(Museum)[formerly listed as Old Grammar School House(Music School)]

G II
C18.Symmetrical front(west)of two storeys and attic,three windows,with a later single-storeyed extension on the north side(of two windows).Tile roof,two flat-roofed dormers with sashes,plastered coved panes.Red brick walling in Flemish bond,rubbed flat arches,stone vills.Sashes in reveals.Tuscan doorcase with open pediment,arched doorway with panelled reveals,fanlight and six-panelled door.Within,there is a fine staircase of two flights,a panelled room with cornice and folding shutters,panelled rooms to the first floor (one with an old fireplace),doorcases and panelled doors.The rear elevation extends behind the north addition.It is regular of six windows with a solid door frame containing a fanlight and six-panelled door.(To the south is attached a school building of 1888,having a symmetrical elevation with similar treatment).


Listing NGR: SU3660445775

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Legacy System number:
139481
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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