Listed Building record MDR24258 - Erewash Museum, High Street, Ilkeston

Erewash Museum, High Street, Ilkeston, a late 18th century building. From the National Heritage List for England: 'PARISH OF ILKESTON HIGH STREET SK 4641 NW 7/41 (West Side) Erewash Museum II Town house, now museum. Late C18 and c1860. Red brick with painted stone dressings. Welsh slate roof with brick gable stacks, external to south. Dentil eaves cornice. Three storeys. Three bay east elevation. The ground floor has a flat roofed projection of the 1860s, with four segment headed windows with plain sashes. Coped parapet and railings. The first floor has a central blind round arched window with keyblocks. Flanked on each side by Venetian windows with keyblocks and glazing bar sashes. The top floor has a similar blind window in the centre, flanked by Diocletian windows with glazing bar sashes and keyblocks. C19 service wing to right not of special interest. The interior has an C18 staircase with turned balusters and ramped handrail. The ground floor room in the south east corner has a rich Victorian plaster ceiling and frieze and robust marble high Victorian chimneypiece. Several plainer Victorian chimneypieces and late C19 chimneypieces and fielded panelled doors. Listing NGR: SK4662641803.' (1)