Statue of Sir Mathew Wilson is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 March 1978. Monument. 1 related planning application.
Statue of Sir Mathew Wilson
- WRENN ID
- shifting-turret-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 March 1978
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Statue of Sir Mathew Wilson, High Street, Skipton, BD23 1JX
- OS grid reference
- SD 990 518
- Coordinates
- 53.96232, -2.01655
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Statue of Sir Mathew Wilson is a monument located on High Street. It commemorates Sir Mathew Wilson, who was the first Member of Parliament for Skipton from 1885 to 1886. The statue features a square sandstone plinth with a moulded base and cornice, which supports a standing stone figure created by A Bruce Joy in 1888.
Local climate
Statue of Sir Mathew Wilson 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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