PROJECT

Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft

ABOUT

Conversion and extension of existing museum

LOCATION

Ditchling, East Sussex

PROJECT TYPE

Cultural

STATUS

Competed 2013

SIZE (sqm)
580
CONTRACTORS
Westridge Construction Limited

Carried out whilst at Adam Richards Architects.

This Lottery-funded project enables the museum’s collection of work by Eric Gill, David Jones and others to be meaningfully displayed. The project includes a new entrance & shop for the museum on Ditchling’s village green in a converted listed barn.

The principal new building on the site is constructed using engineered timber, and clad with black zinc. It houses a new introductory gallery with a ‘Wunderkammer’ containing the museum’s founding objects.

The culmination of our designs for the museum is a gallery to exhibit the Stanhope Press. Used to disseminate the ideas of Gill & his followers, this still-working printing press is placed at the end of a chapel-like space, surrounded by displays of works-on-paper.

The Sunday Times considered the museum to be the best architectural project of the year; Hugh Pearman called it 'an important building for English rural architecture'.

Both Jonny & Anna from Chalk were involved in the delivery and detailing of DItchling Museum.

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An important building for English rural architecture.

The Sunday Times considered the museum to be the best architectural project of the year; Hugh Pearman called it 'an important building for English rural architecture’.

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