The Tolbooth is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1952. Town hall.
The Tolbooth
- WRENN ID
- brooding-loft-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1952
- Type
- Town hall
- Address
- The Tolbooth, 72 and 74, High Street, Skipton
- OS grid reference
- SD 989 516
- Coordinates
- 53.96118, -2.01695
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tolbooth, located at 72 and 74 High Street and including Nos 9, 9A, and 11 Sheep Street, is an 18th-century building. It is constructed of stone rubble and ashlar and stands two storeys tall. The ground floor features three windows and two doors arranged alternately within an arcade of five arches, which have moulded archivolts supported by pilasters. The ground floor also has flush quoins and a broad string course between the storeys.
On the upper storey, there are projecting long and short quoins, five long windows with plain reveals, and an entablature at the eaves that is supported by pilasters, one positioned between each pair of windows. These pilasters have moulded bases and vertically fluted caps. The frieze of the entablature is decorated with a series of vertical flutes, with paterae located above each window and each pilaster. The gable copings are adorned with springers.
Local climate
The Tolbooth sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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