Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q99703423

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Recommended Books

• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)