The Museum is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1974. Museum. 1 related planning application.
The Museum
- WRENN ID
- western-minaret-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1974
- Type
- Museum
- Address
- The Museum, Bridge Street, Lyme Regis, DT7 3QA
- OS grid reference
- SY 342 920
- Coordinates
- 50.72476, -2.93246
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Museum, built around 1870 and patroned by Mr. Thomas Philpot, is an L-shaped building made of red brick with stone dressings. It features large transomed and mullioned windows with leaded glazing. The gable end facing the street has splayed bay windows on both the ground and first floors, set within round-headed recesses. There is a stepped parapet with volutes on the left-hand return of this wing, which has three window bays; the windows in two of these bays are set in three-centred headed recesses and are topped by an attic storey with an oval lunette and gable.
At the rear angle of this wing, a projecting stairwell rises to form an octagonal tower, which has an octagonal lantern with a two-light window on each facet and a rounded roof with a tapering finial. There is also an east-west wing that is two storeys high and has two bays. The ground floor features a loggia with two stone arches supported by stone columns, and there are modern additions on the first floor.
The Museum and the Guildhall form a group with Nos 60 to 62 Church Street. From the sea, the rear faces of the Museum and Guildhall group with the sea walls at Gun Cliff and with the rear faces of Nos 1 and 2 Broad Street.
Local climate
The Museum receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 1 application
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