The Museum is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. Museum. 2 related planning applications.
The Museum
- WRENN ID
- ruined-ledge-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Museum
- Address
- The Museum, Broadway, SG6 3PF
- OS grid reference
- TL 217 323
- Coordinates
- 51.97666, -0.22956
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Museum is a Grade II listed building located on the east side of Broadway, constructed in 1914 and 1920 by architect Barry Parker. It features a classical style and was originally intended to be part of a larger block. The building has three storeys and a symmetrical facade with projecting entrance bays. The window arrangement is 1:1:3:1:1. It has a tiled roof with coped gables and a brick ridge stack. The front is made of brick, and it includes architraved sash windows with glazing bars. The windows in the entrance bay are set in vertical recesses of Portland stone, with cornices above the first-floor windows, which are located in arched recesses. The ground floor is distinguished by an entablature at the first-floor level, and the doorways are architraved with segmental open pediments. Major additions were made to the building between 1960 and 1965 by C M Crickmer.
Local climate
The Museum sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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