Robin Hood's Bay Museum and Reading Room is a Grade II listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 October 1969. Museum, reading room. 2 related planning applications.
Robin Hood's Bay Museum and Reading Room
- WRENN ID
- second-brick-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North York Moors National Park
- Constituency
- Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 October 1969
- Type
- Museum, reading room
- Address
- Robin Hood's Bay Museum and Reading Room, Fisher Head, Fylingdales, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- NZ 952 049
- Coordinates
- 54.43066, -0.53331
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Robin Hood's Bay Museum and Reading Room is a reading room, library, and museum that underwent remodelling around 1900 of an older building. It features peaked coursed stone with ashlar dressings and a pantiled roof with a stone ridge, coping, and kneeler, along with a brick stack. The structure has two storeys with two bays and a left entrance bay that is one storey high.
On the left side of the main building, there is a boarded door with large hinges under a flattened ogee lintel, and the surround is hollow-chamfered. To the right, there are three-light stone-mullioned windows with leaded glazing. The first-floor string course is visible, with a two-light stone-mullioned window on the right and a single light on the left, all of which are chamfered. The left bay contains a similar door and a round-arched upper window topped with a cross finial, along with an ornamental rainwater head positioned between them. The swept roof has coping and a kneeler at the left end and a stack at the right end. The rear elevation reveals older masonry and includes one small fixed light with headed glazing, a boarded-up chamfered window in the right bay, and a rooflight.
Local climate
Robin Hood's Bay Museum and Reading Room receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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