Selby Masonic Hall

A pair of late C18 town houses, altered in the C20 for use as a Masonic Hall.

MATERIALS: yellow brick, rendered to the front of number 27, slate roof to the front pitch, rear roofs in clay pantiles.

PLAN: C plan with principal range aligned south-west to north-east, and two rear ranges projecting to the north-west.

EXTERIOR: facing south-east, the three-storey front facade is of five bays, comprising two bays to number 25 (left) and three bays to number 27. Number 25 is of yellow brick in Flemish Bond, with a low stone plinth, and number 27 is of scored render with a taller plinth due to the falling ground. Paired, painted pedimented door surrounds approached by low stone steps. The surrounds have plain pilasters with moulded bases, feather capitals and a frieze decorated with husk festoons. Semi-circular arched architraves with fanlights and recessed fielded panel doors. A curved lamp bracket with scroll decoration and a modern lamp fitting is situated above the right-hand doorway, and the door to the left has an urn door knocker. Windows have projecting stone sills and wedge lintels with fluted keystones (all painted), all two-over-two sashes with horns: to number 25, one to the ground floor and two per floor above, and to number 27, two to the ground floor and three to the top floor (which is lower here than at 25), unevenly spaced but stacked. The front slope of the roof is clad in Welsh slate, and to number 27 is sprocketed with stone coping and kneeler to the gable. Ridge stacks at either end (shared at the left with the adjacent, unlisted public house, with bands, cogging and octagonal pots) and on the party wall. Ogee cast-iron gutter with wrought-iron stays, and cast-iron downpipes.

The north-east side facade is of orange brick in English Garden Wall bond, with coped gable and kneelers, and gable stack. It has blocked stair windows set above the ground and first floors with sills and lintels matching the front; a lower window is also blocked but without these features. A low two-storey rear outshut has modern windows and partially blocked openings. The southern rear outshut has coped gable with kneelers, and gable stack.