The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage of two bays facing onto the High Street.

On the ground floor there was a central doorway flanked by two bay windows, all surmounted by a lean-to slate roof.

[2] The museum was established in 1989,[3] and is dedicated to the memory of the local author, James Stevens-Cox, who wrote the book, A History of Ilchester, the Ancient County Town of Somerset, published in 1947.

[5] The museum includes exhibits showing the history of the town from the Iron Age and Roman periods, when it was known as Lindinis, to the present day.

[9] The collection also includes a full set of Maundy Money which Queen Elizabeth II presented to a local parishioner in Wells Cathedral in 1993 and which was acquired by the museum in 1995.