Museum and Art Gallery is a Grade II listed building in the Warrington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 April 1975. Museum, art gallery. 2 related planning applications.
Museum and Art Gallery
- WRENN ID
- tall-paling-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Warrington
- Constituency
- Warrington South MP: Sarah Hall (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 April 1975
- Type
- Museum, art gallery
- Address
- Museum and Art Gallery, Bold Street, WA1 1JG
- OS grid reference
- SJ 604 879
- Coordinates
- 53.387, -2.59639
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Museum and Art Gallery was built between 1855 and 1857 by John Dobson of Newcastle. It is constructed of red brick and stone and has two storeys. The building features a top cornice supported by modillions, with quoins and a band. The central section projects forward and includes an entrance flanked by Tuscan pilasters, along with two tripartite windows on each side, each topped with cornices. Above the entrance are five blank stone panels instead of windows, with the center panel carved with "museum and library." The facade facing Museum Street has a simpler entrance in the center, five windows, and eight panels, of which three bays are original and the rest were added later in a similar style. Inside, there is an iron staircase. The Museum and Art Gallery is part of a group of listed buildings that includes Nos 12, 9 to 21 (odd), No 10 Egypt Street, all the listed buildings in Palmyra Square, Nos 3 to 13 (odd) Springfield Street, and Nos 13 and 15 Suez Street.
Local climate
Museum and Art Gallery sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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