Purcell has secured planning permission for a new museum in the Somerset village of Street that will tell the story of Clarks Shoes.

Clarks was founded in Street in 1825 and Purcell’s proposals will see the new attraction – named the Shoemakers Museum – created at grade II-listed The Grange, a former manor house connected with the Clark shoemaking family for more than 100 years.

The plans, which were approved by Somerset Council earlier this month, will see the removal of a 1970s building that connects The Grange and a barn. It will be replaced by a two-storey structure featuring a Bath stone loggia and a folded brick façade with perforations and projections.

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