County Stand at York Racecourse is a Grade II listed building in the York local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1995. Racecourse stand. 3 related planning applications.
County Stand at York Racecourse
- WRENN ID
- twisted-gargoyle-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- York
- Constituency
- York Central MP: Rachael Maskell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1995
- Type
- Racecourse stand
- Address
- County Stand at York Racecourse, Knavesmire, YO23 1EJ
- OS grid reference
- SE 596 498
- Coordinates
- 53.94095, -1.09255
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The County Stand at York Racecourse is a racecourse stand built around 1840, with some early 20th-century alterations and extensions. It is constructed from cast iron and timber, featuring a boarded awning supported by iron trusses and a slate hipped roof with wide eaves held up by timber brackets.
The exterior presents a two-storey front with 11 bays, arranged in two tiers of segmental arches supported by twisted columns with floral capitals on tall pedestals. The spandrels are decorated with openwork arabesques. The lower tier is open at the front, with eight bays featuring a curved awning that has a scalloped valance above. The upper tier is adorned with an ornate balustrade made of cast-iron openwork panels.
Inside, the lower tier is stepped and fitted with wooden bench seats. A rear partition wall includes glazed and panelled doors along with coat pegs. Behind this wall, there is a close string staircase with substantial turned balusters and a shaped handrail on square sunk-panel newels topped with ball and pedestal finials. Both tiers are finished with moulded cornices.
Local climate
County Stand at York Racecourse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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