Part Of Museum

1. 1042 LONG STREET (West Side)

No 40 (Museum, part of) SU 0061 4/43 9.4.54. II GV

1. Late C18 house now part of Museum. 2 storeys and attic red brick on shallow stone plinth. Stone band between storeys. Moulded stone cornice. Brick parapet with stone coping. Slightly projecting central bay. Mansard slate roof. 3 flat roofed dormers. 3 windows on 1st floor and 2 on ground floor, recessed, sash, no glazing bars, block sills, flat brick arches with doubled keystones. Central doorway of stone with semi engaged Doric columns, entablature and pediment. Door now replaced by window. To the left a 2 storeyed extension with stone coping to parapet. 1 blind window lst floor, double doors, originally stable entrance, on ground floor. To the right and linking No 40 with No 41 qv: the Museum entrance of 1872 in florid Gothic. 2 storeys Bath stone coursed rubble. Plinth with moulded capping. Parapet, with moulded coping, decorated with roundels containing quatrefoils. Moulded cornice. lst floor 4 light oriel type bay with stone hipped roof, pointed lights with cusping, drip moulds over, the stepped apron links up with door surround. Door set in pointed moulded arch, double with elaborate hinges. The doorway is flanked by pointed windows with drip moulds. Moulded sill course carried up over doorhead as drip mould. No 40 was at one time a school attended by Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA.

Nos 31 to 42 (consec) form a group.

Listing NGR: SU0054961191