Erewash Museum

Erewash Museum is a town house that has been converted into a museum. It dates from the late 18th century and around 1860. The building is constructed of red brick with painted stone dressings and features a Welsh slate roof with brick gable stacks on the south side. It has a dentil eaves cornice and stands three storeys tall with a three-bay east elevation.

On the ground floor, there is a flat-roofed projection from the 1860s that includes four segment-headed windows with plain sashes. Above this, the first floor features a central blind round-arched window with keyblocks, flanked by Venetian windows, also with keyblocks and glazing bar sashes. The top floor mirrors this arrangement with a similar blind window in the centre, flanked by Diocletian windows that have glazing bar sashes and keyblocks. To the right is a 19th-century service wing that is not of special interest.

Inside, there is an 18th-century staircase with turned balusters and a ramped handrail. The ground floor room in the southeast corner boasts an elaborate Victorian plaster ceiling and frieze, along with a robust marble high Victorian chimneypiece. There are also several simpler Victorian chimneypieces and late 19th-century chimneypieces, as well as fielded panelled doors.