1 The Crescent, Selby (formerly the Albion Vaults public house)

Public house, late C18, altered in the C20 and C21.

MATERIALS: stuccoed brick, slate-clad hipped roof, with a fair-faced clamp brick rear range.

PLAN: rectangular plan.

EXTERIOR: three-storeys, two-bay narrow front elevation and a wide two-bay side elevation with attached rear range and a former stable block. The ground floor of the front elevation has a central recessed double door with six fielded panels and a large fanlight, flanked to each side by a pair of large plate-glass windows with low brick risers, plain pilasters, moulded blind clerestory panels, simple moulded console brackets supporting a dentilled cornice, and a modern cusped-ended facia board. The first floor has two, two-light horned sash windows with raised voussoirs, resting on a continuous sill band. The second floor is also lit by two identical windows. The side elevation has flush two-light horned sash windows with a pair to the ground floor, a single sash with exposed boxes to the first and second floors on the left, and blocked window positions to the right. The wall has five moulded circular tie-plates, one to the first floor and two each to the second and ground floor. The hipped Welsh slate clad roof is obscured to the front and side elevations by a plain parapet with flat coping stones. The roof is continuous with the adjacent property and has a shared chimney stack at the apex of the hip.

The two-storey two-bay rear range has a single sash to each floor, a doorway to the right and a gabled Welsh slate roof. The attached former stable block has an irregular five-bay north-east elevation; it has a double timber garage door to the left, three two-light sash windows with moulded brick sills and differing segmental brick lintels, and one sash with a flat timber lintel. The first floor has a square timber-framed ventilation window, a double taking-in door, a sash window with a flat lintel of terracotta blocks and a blocked window space with a similar lintel. The gabled roof is clad in slate with grey ridge tiles and is drained by modern plastic rainwater goods. It has a raised brick gable verge with plain coping stones that terminates with stone kneelers. A small single-storey lean-to against the eastern gable is built using small bricks. The rear elevation of the main range has a sash window to each floor and a brick chimney stack rises against the south elevation of the former stable block.