The Old Court House is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1978. Court house.
The Old Court House
- WRENN ID
- other-banister-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1978
- Type
- Court house
- Address
- The Old Court House, the Square, Boroughbridge
- OS grid reference
- SE 406 662
- Coordinates
- 54.09085, -1.38065
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Court House is a former court house built in the 18th century. It is constructed of reddish-brown brick and features a pantile roof with raised brick verges and a gable end facing the square. The building has stepped and dentilled eaves that extend across the gable end. A brick staircase leads to a blocked first-floor entrance in the north gable end. Incorporated into the staircase is a hammer-dressed stone shelf that was once used as a mounting block, along with a plaque that reads: 'The Old Court House of the Ancient Borough of Aldborough and Boroughbridge at which the Members of Parliament were elected until 1832.' There is a slightly lower extension to the south and two doors on the east elevation. Until the First Reform Act, Aldborough was a pocket borough that returned two Members of Parliament. The building has group value with Stocks House and the rest of the square.
Local climate
The Old Court House receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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