Major works at Dorset Museum get the go-ahead

We are delighted to be assisting the Dorset Museum & Art Gallery with their proposed roof refurbishment project. As G R Crickmay & Son designed the original Victorian museum buildings in 1881, there is a great sense of pride in returning to help with their restoration. The programme for this Grade II Listed building includes replacing fibre cement slates with natural slates, replacement lead flashings, roof valleys and parapet gutters, and renewing lead and copper cladding to the dormer windows, as well as repairs to the Victorian Gallery clerestory windows. With Dorset Council’s backing of the application for the roof refurbishment now in place, the next challenge for the Museum is to try to secure funding to carry out the much-needed work, as water leaks have been causing damage to internal areas for some time.

Aerial/drone images of the roofscape are reproduced with the kind permission of Makepeace Associates Ltd.  All other images were generated by Crickmay Stark Architects.