Derby Assembly Rooms | |
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General information | |
Status | Disused |
Architectural style | Brutalist |
Location | Derby, England |
Coordinates | 52°55′25″N 1°28′35″W / 52.9237°N 1.4764°W |
Opening | 1977 |
Closed | 2014 |
Owner | Derby City Council |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | Hugh Casson/Neville Conder |
The Derby Assembly Rooms was an events venue in the English city of Derby. There have been three iterations of the Derby Assembly Rooms, with the last two on the same site. The first was opened in 1714 in Full Street, but soon proved inadequate. The second was built in 1763 on Market Place and was used until it was damaged by a fire in 1963. The third was built in 1977 and used until it too was damaged in a fire in 2014.[1][2][3][4]
Both of the last two buildings still exist, at least in part. The façade of the 1763 building was dismantled and rebuilt as part of the vintage street scene at the National Tramway Museum in Crich, Derbyshire. The 1977 building still stands, albeit unused since 2014, but has an uncertain future.[2][5]