The Old Courthouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Riding of Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 December 1966. A C15 Former courthouse.
The Old Courthouse
- WRENN ID
- tired-groin-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Goole and Pocklington MP: David Davis (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 December 1966
- Type
- Former courthouse
- Address
- The Old Courthouse, Howden
- OS grid reference
- SE 748 281
- Coordinates
- 53.74456, -0.86697
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Courthouse is a building that dates from the 15th or 16th century, originally used for an unknown purpose, possibly as a courthouse, and is now a garden shed. It features mainly rubble construction with some brick repairs and stone dressings, topped with a replacement pantile roof. The building is single storey and has four bays.
On the left side, there is a fragment of a chamfered plinth made of tooled stone. In the third bay, there is a board door set in a hollow moulded basket arch with chamfered jambs, accompanied by a square-headed window positioned high to the left and a basket-arched window with a double chamfered surround to the right.
The south gable end has a fragmentary chamfered plinth and features a double leaf board door beneath a brick basket arch, flanked by square-headed windows in chamfered surrounds, with a chamfered horizontal band above. The north gable end displays two pairs of pointed cinque-cusped windows in chamfered surrounds. A substantial stepped buttress is located on the south-west side, and the lower part of the west wall is constructed of ashlar.
Local climate
The Old Courthouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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