At the National Tramway Museum in Crich.

The Museum started in the 1950s / 60s when most of the old tram networks in the cities of the UK were being closed down.

The Tramway Museum Society was formed in the late 1940s when the decline began and they started to purchase the trams, track etc.

The Crich site came to the attention of the society in the late 1950s. They later purchased the site.

At the Crich Tramway Village. On Tramway Street.

Derby Assembly Room facade.

Originally built between 1765 and 1774 in Derby, the facade was relocated to Crich after a fire in 1963 and opened here in 1974. It now houses The Survive and Thrive - the electric era exhibition and new for 2014 'The Making of Crich' exhibition looking at the people who have made the museum what it is today.

The facade is Grade II listed.

Facade of the Former Derby Assembly Rooms, Crich

   SK 35 SW PARISH OF CRICH CLIFFSIDE
   3/11
   Facade of the former Derby
   Assembly Rooms
   II

   Re-erected facade of the Derby Assembly Rooms 1752-5. Tentatively attributed to
   Washington Shirley, fifth Earl Ferrers, with Joseph Pickford of Derby the
   contractor. Ashlar gritstone, with chamfered rustication to basement. Five bay
   front with raised pedimented three bay centre, above a basement. Outer two bays
   of basement with semi-circular headed double doorways, with voussoirs in chamfer
   rusticated ashlar. Central doorway with Gibbs surround flanked by glazing bar
   sashes with voussoirs to heads. First floor openings with moulded and eared
   architraves, pulvinated friezes, bays 2 and 4 with scrolled brackets supporting
   setmental pediments, bays 1 and 5 with plain pediments. Central bay with dentilled
   pediment and attached columns with Ionic capitals. Glazing bar sashes. Ashlar
   band below first floor openings, with balustrades to central three openings, and
   to the parapets to bays 1 and 5, which have square terminal piers and banded ball
   finials. Three attic wheel lights in square openings with eared architraves below
   pediment with carved tympanum. The Assembly Rooms were damaged by fire in 1963,
   and the facade erected on the site of the Tramway Museum in Crich in the early
   1970s.

   Listing NGR: SK3451554843

This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.

Source: English Heritage