Brewhouse Yard Museum and Associated Caves is a Grade II listed building in the Nottingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1952. Museum, houses. 1 related planning application.
Brewhouse Yard Museum and Associated Caves
- WRENN ID
- sunken-trefoil-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Nottingham
- Constituency
- Nottingham East MP: Nadia Whittome (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 August 1952
- Type
- Museum, houses
- Address
- Brewhouse Yard Museum and Associated Caves, Castle Road, City of Nottingham
- OS grid reference
- SK 570 394
- Coordinates
- 52.94926, -1.15296
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brewhouse Yard Museum and associated caves is a former group of four houses, now functioning as a museum, dating from around 1675. The building was restored and converted in 1977. It is constructed of red brick with moulded brick dressings and features a gabled and hipped plain tile roof. The structure has four ridge stacks and a single gable stack, all of which have been rebuilt. Notable architectural details include a plinth, first and second floor bands, and coped gables. The windows are primarily glazing bar casements, mostly with two lights, and are topped with brick flat arches and keystones. The building stands two storeys plus attics, with a symmetrical front that has a three-gabled centre and eight windows, flanked by gabled wings. The ground floor exhibits slightly irregular fenestration, featuring two renewed doors. Each gable has three single windows, while the right wing contains two windows and a five-light window in the gable. The left wing has a similar arrangement, with a door to the left and a four-light window in the gable.
Inside, the museum retains exposed span beams and joists in most rooms, along with two original dogleg staircases that have intersecting strings and turned balusters. At the rear of the building, there are associated caves carved into the face of Castle Rock. These caves consist of various irregular chambers with brick reinforcement and infilling, along with a square shaft leading to the surface. The caves are likely contemporary with the houses.
Local climate
Brewhouse Yard Museum and Associated Caves sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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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