Audus charity

Audus Charity is a building constructed in the summer of 1833, designed and funded by the younger James Audus, a notable local philanthropist and amateur architect. It is made of brown brick and features a hipped slate roof. The structure has three sides of a square and stands two storeys high. The east side has three bays, the west side has four bays, and the south side has four bays plus a frontispiece. The windows are casements with glazing bars and channelled ashlar voussoirs.

The frontispiece rises into a low tower topped with a crenellated parapet and crocketed pinnacles at the corners. It includes two moulded string courses and a two-centred arched passage entrance, which is adorned with a crocketed ogee-headed moulding that culminates in an elaborate finial above, with masks serving as label stops below.

On the first floor, there is a sunk ashlar plaque that reads: "THESE HOUSES ERECTED AT THE SOLE EXPENSE OF JAMES AUDUS ESQ WERE PRESENTED TO THE FEOFFEES AND THEIR SUCCESSORS AT SELBY IN TRUST FOR PIOUS USES. THAT THE SAID HOUSES BE OCCUPIED FROM TIME TO TIME BY AGED AND INFIRM PEOPLE WITHOUT FAMILIES BELONGING TO THE PARISH TO SELBY RENT FREE. NATALIS LOCI SUI AMORIS MONUMENTUM 1833."