The Museum is a Grade II listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1952. Museum. 5 related planning applications.
The Museum
- WRENN ID
- vast-cellar-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peterborough
- Constituency
- Peterborough MP: Andrew Pakes (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1952
- Type
- Museum
- Address
- The Museum, Priestgate, City of Peterborough, PE1 1LF
- OS grid reference
- TL 189 985
- Coordinates
- 52.57173, -0.24579
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Museum is an 1816 building located at 1500 Priestgate in Peterborough. Originally a private house, it later served as a hospital. The structure is built of ashlar with a slate roof and stands three storeys high. It features a central pediment and has a plain string course and parapet. There are five windows, with the central window section projecting forward beneath the pediment above the portico porch, which is supported by plain fluted columns. The windows are set in recesses and have stone architraves, with a string course continuing above their heads. The ground floor and the area above the tiled porch have longer windows. An iron balustrade adorns the porch, which has double doors made of glass and wood. To the left, there is a later two-storey wing. The Museum, along with Nos 26 to 30 (even) Trinity Presbyterian Congregational Church, forms a group of buildings.
Local climate
The Museum sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 5 applications
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