Jewry Wall Museum is a Grade II listed building in the Leicester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1993. Museum, former college. 6 related planning applications.
Jewry Wall Museum
- WRENN ID
- graven-truss-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leicester
- Constituency
- Leicester West MP: Liz Kendall (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1993
- Type
- Museum, former college
- Address
- Jewry Wall Museum, 156-160, St Nicholas Circle, City of Leicester, LE1 4LB
- OS grid reference
- SK 581 044
- Coordinates
- 52.63481, -1.14175
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Jewry Wall Museum is a former college of education built between 1960 and 1962, designed by Trevor Dannatt. It features a brown brick exterior combined with board-marked reinforced concrete and has flat roofs. The building is two to three storeys high and has an L-shaped two-storey range to the west, where the museum is located on the ground floor. Inside the museum, there are board-marked concrete barrel vaults along the ceiling, supported by expressed beams. The ground floor has deeply recessed floor-to-ceiling glazing, while the upper floor is fitted with horizontal strip windows. The north wing is elevated on pilotis and also features horizontal strip windows, with timber window frames throughout.
Local climate
Jewry Wall Museum receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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