THE BLACKMORE MUSEUM TO THE REAR OF THE SALSBURY MUSEUM

THE BLACKMORE MUSEUM TO THE REAR OF THE SALSBURY MUSEUM, ST ANNES STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1272832
Date first listed:: 28-Aug-1980
List Entry Name:: THE BLACKMORE MUSEUM TO THE REAR OF THE SALSBURY MUSEUM
Statutory Address:: THE BLACKMORE MUSEUM TO THE REAR OF THE SALSBURY MUSEUM, ST ANNES STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1272832
Date first listed:: 28-Aug-1980
List Entry Name:: THE BLACKMORE MUSEUM TO THE REAR OF THE SALSBURY MUSEUM
Statutory Address 1:: THE BLACKMORE MUSEUM TO THE REAR OF THE SALSBURY MUSEUM, ST ANNES 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:: THE BLACKMORE MUSEUM TO THE REAR OF THE SALSBURY MUSEUM, ST ANNES STREET

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Salisbury
National Grid Reference:: SU 14738 29586

Details

ST ANNES STREET 1. 1594 (South Side) The Blackmore Museum to SU 1429 NE 4/368A the rear of the Salisbury Museum II 2. Important example of a purpose built museum, virtually unaltered. Founded 1864 by W Blackmore to house a collection of artifacts, illustrating the "Stone age of different countries", the building was specially designed by John Harding and opened in September 1869. Built of brick with stone dressings in a gothic style, the museum is a rectangular hall with 2 large gabled mullioned transomed lancet light windows and a central gabled porch. Slats roof with saddlestones to gable ends, cresting tiles to ridge. The brickwork has a simple pattern grid of polychrome bricks. The interior has a fine hammer beam roof and battlemented original showcases, painted and gilt, along the walls. Floor of Minton encaustic tiles. Roof and wall decoration executed by Harland and Fisher, a London firm in Southampton Row who carried out major decorative schemes including work at the South Kensington Museum.

Listing NGR: SU1473829586

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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.