March and District Museum is a Grade II listed building in the Fenland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1985. Museum.
March and District Museum
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-keystone-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Fenland
- Constituency
- North East Cambridgeshire MP: Steve Barclay (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1985
- Type
- Museum
- Address
- March and District Museum, High Street
- OS grid reference
- TL 416 964
- Coordinates
- 52.54779, 0.08729
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The March and District Museum is a building that was originally a school, constructed around 1850. It features carstone slate walls complemented by gault brick and Ketton dressings. The roof is steeply pitched and covered with slate, including lead louvre ventilation. At each end, there are tall stacks with two linked shafts. The school hall is a single storey and has two four-light cross-frame casements set in square heads with drip moulds. There is a central doorway with a four-centred arch, above which is a raised gable that displays a stone tablet with a scroll and the inscription "Erected by the Trustees of March Consolidated Charities." The building also includes a cross-wing that is two storeys high, featuring a two-storey bay at the front.
Local climate
March and District Museum sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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