City Museum Winchester, England
Listed Building Data
City Museum has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1061372
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 11 July 2002
- Name
- CITY MUSEUM
- Location
- CITY MUSEUM, THE SQUARE
- District
- Winchester
- County
- Hampshire
- Grid Reference
- SU 48104 29406
- Easting
- 448104.4500
- Northing
- 129406.2840
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
869/0/10063 THE SQUARE 11-JUL-02 City Museum
GV II
Museum. 1902; by Colson, Farrow and Nisbett. Knapped flint with freestone dressings. Welsh slate mansard roof with glazed ridge light. Flint and freestone lateral stacks with weathered caps. PLAN: Rectangular on plan, with entrance vestibule at west end containing stairs. Tudor style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attic and basement. Symmetrical west front has recessed curved corners with 3-light mullion-transom windows; central 4-centred arch doorway with carved spandrels, side-lights and label with carved stops; large 3-light window above with painted shields in the lower lights and a small gable above with chequer-pattern flushwork. The 3-bay north and south sides have large 3-light mullion-transom windows with 4-centred arch lights to first floor windows and hoodmoulds; all stone mullion windows with leaded panes. INTERIOR: Entrance vestibule has stone stairs with plain iron balusters, moulded handrail and Jacobethan style newel with carved heraldic lion and shield finial. Attic open to moulded queen-post roof trusses. A well designed Tudor style public building very conspicuously situated in the city centre near the Cathedral.
