Ely Museum Building, Cambridgeshire
Ely Museum Building, Cambridgeshire Design, HAT Projects English Architecture Photos
Ely Museum Cambridgeshire Building
29 May 2022
Location: Ely, Cambridgeshire, southeast England, United Kingdom
Design: HAT Projects
Photos by Philip Vile
Ely Museum Building, Cambridgeshire Design
Jury Report
HAT Projects have taken on a badly degraded historic building and lovingly restored and extended it to give new life and purpose to Ely Museum, creating a great resource for the town.
Everything about the project starts with modest means ? the Bishop of Ely?s former Gaol, unsympathetically altered in the 1990s, at which point many of the building?s original features were lost. From this unpromising beginning a small amount of National Lottery funding has allowed some deft stripping out to reveal what was left of the Gaol?s obscured original fabric. A new entrance lobby, accessed from a sunny planted courtyard, connects the museum to Market Street, while a new addition, including a big teaching and community room at first floor level has been created in space won back from the council car park. This addition provides a generous new set of public and administrative spaces which can be accessed independently from the museum for wider community use.
The architects have carefully chosen their materials, from re-used boarding saved from the original cells of the gaol to the hand-made gault clay tiles that enclose the new volume. An honorific bay window celebrates the lobby to the new comm...
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