Royal Albert Memorial Museum is a Grade II listed building in the Exeter local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 June 1974. Museum. 11 related planning applications.
Royal Albert Memorial Museum
- WRENN ID
- peeling-ledge-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exeter
- Constituency
- Exeter MP: Steve Race (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 June 1974
- Type
- Museum
- Address
- Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, EX4 3RX
- OS grid reference
- SX 919 928
- Coordinates
- 50.72511, -3.53221
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, located at 1 Queen Street, was built in 1865 by J Hayward of Exeter and is designed in the Venetian Gothic style. The building is constructed from Heavitree stone with paler red stone dressings and features two storeys, a basement, and an attic. The front facade is arranged in a pattern of four, three, three, three, and four bays, with the second and fourth bays set back. A large porch and entrance are highlighted by red granite columns. The building has a pierced parapet and a slate roof, with an iron fence along the frontage. It is part of a group that includes Nos 74 to 91 (consecutive) and the Queen's Hotel.
Local climate
Royal Albert Memorial Museum receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 11 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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