The Shambles is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1966. Market hall.
The Shambles
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1966
- Type
- Market hall
- Address
- The Shambles, Wetherby
- OS grid reference
- SE 403 481
- Coordinates
- 53.92809, -1.3863
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Shambles is a colonnade originally designed to enclose butchers' stalls, now housing various shops and public conveniences. It was built in 1811, with the northern facade facing the Market Place added in 1911. The structure is single storey and consists of 11 bays. Bays 1 and 11 feature round arches, while the other bays have basket arches that spring from square piers without imposts. The roof is monoclinal with paired wooden gutter brackets, a hip at the left end, and a shaped gable on the right.
On the right return, there is a shop front flanked by tall channel-rusticated pilasters that have plinths, bands, entablatures, and ball finials. Above the shop, within a stone panel, is an ashlar aedicule with an apron panel and a moulded sill beneath a plaque inscribed 'THIS FRONT/WAS ERECTED BY/PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION/TO COMMEMORATE/THE CORONATION/OF/KING GEORGE V/JUNE 1911'. Above this is a pediment with a frieze inscribed 'MARKET HALL', and the gable is rounded with moulded copings.
Local climate
The Shambles receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% 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 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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