Audus charity is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1980. Charity. 1 related planning application.
Audus charity
- WRENN ID
- hollow-zinc-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Selby MP: Keir Mather (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 November 1980
- Type
- Charity
- Address
- Audus charity, 125-139 and 143, Gowthorpe, Selby, YO8 4HD
- OS grid reference
- SE 609 321
- Coordinates
- 53.78232, -1.07589
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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."
Local climate
Audus charity sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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