2, 3, 4 and 5 The Crescent, Selby

This is a late 18th-century terrace of shops with accommodation above, altered in the 20th and 21st centuries. The buildings are constructed of fair-faced brick, with slate-clad gable roofs and brick and rendered rear ranges. The buildings have sub-rectangular plans.

The north-west elevation comprises four properties, each with a three-storey, three-bay façade. Numbers 3, 4, and 5 are set back slightly from number 2. Number 2 has an asymmetrical frontage. The ground floor of number 2 features a mid-20th century Art Deco former Conservative Club frontage with painted cement render pilasters, a plinth, and a cornice. Entry is via a three-panel timber door, and the frontage is lit by three multi-pane, painted galvanised steel Crittal windows with leaded lights, set on a sill band with recessed brick panels and a flat facia panel. Number 3 has a late 19th to early 20th century shopfront in antis, featuring a deeply splayed entry leading to a glazed double shop door, beneath a two-light rectangular fanlight. A mosaic floor extends into the entry, bordered by trailing foliage motifs that reflect the base of a former island display case. Three canted shop windows flank the entry, exhibiting quality Art Nouveau details including fluted pilasters, consoles, a recessed roller awning, a decorated soffit, and a domed facia with a dentil cornice. The shopfronts of numbers 4 and 5 were added in the mid- to late 20th century. The first floor of each property, with the exception of number 3 (which has two-light horned sashes), has three twelve-light six-over-six sash windows with raised voussoirs, supported by a continuous painted and rendered sill band. All second floors are lit by three windows of smaller proportions.

The rear elevation of number 2 is rendered and painted, while the remaining rear elevations are fair-faced brick with dentil eaves courses and a variety of window types and shapes. A rectangular, tall, single-storey billiard hall is attached to the rear of number 2, featuring a Diocletian window in its south gable, a Welsh slate clad roof with obscured skylights, and three galvanized steel ridge ventilators. Numbers 3 and 5 have two-storey service ranges with gabled roofs clad in Welsh slate. Number 4 has a late 20th century flat-roofed single-storey rear range. The front roofs are clad in Welsh slate; number 2 has a coped raised verge with a kneeler, and a dormer window; number 3 has a pair of plain dormer windows to the front and a single dormer to the rear; and number 5 has a small attic window in the apex of its south-west gable.