New Walk Museum is a Grade II listed building in the Leicester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 January 1950. A C19 Museum. 14 related planning applications.
New Walk Museum
- WRENN ID
- muted-remnant-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leicester
- Constituency
- Leicester South MP: Shockat Adam (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 January 1950
- Type
- Museum
- Address
- New Walk Museum, 53, City of Leicester, LE1 7EA
- OS grid reference
- SK 591 038
- Coordinates
- 52.62893, -1.12787
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
New Walk Museum was built in 1836 as a Nonconformist Proprietory School and was sold to the Corporation in 1848 for use as a museum. The architect was J. A. Hansom. This large classical building is constructed of stucco and features a massive tetrastyle portico with giant Tuscan columns. The central entrance door has a small moulded cornice supported by console brackets. There are later additions on three sides: to the left of the portico, a large grey brick extension was added in 1876 by Shenton and Baker, and to the right, a stuccoed addition was made in 1932 by Albert Herbert. The rear elevation includes giant pilasters and a pediment. New Walk Museum, along with No 47 and Nos 58 to 64 (even) New Walk, and Nos 1, 3, and 5 Museum Square, as well as Nos 59 to 61 (odd) Princess Road West and No 1 West Street, form a group around Museum Square.
Local climate
New Walk 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 14 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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