Selby Public Library is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1979. Library.
Selby Public Library
- WRENN ID
- steep-casement-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Selby MP: Keir Mather (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1979
- Type
- Library
- Address
- Selby Public Library, James Street
- OS grid reference
- SE 614 322
- Coordinates
- 53.78301, -1.06901
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Selby Public Library is a mid-19th century building constructed of pink brick with ashlar dressings and a pitched slate roof. It stands two storeys tall and features a first-floor string course. The façade is divided into two principal bays, each containing three round-headed lancets. The lancets on the first floor are set within giant semi-circular relieving arches, and each bay is topped with a moulded gable. Between the bays is a slightly raised pedimented centrepiece that includes a round-headed window with shafted reveals and moulded voussoirs. The outer bays, which are gabled on the end elevations, have paired round-arched lancets on the first floor and round-headed doors on the ground floor. The design reflects the best of contemporary classicism and shows influences from French architecture, such as Hittoff's Gare du Nord in Paris.
Local climate
Selby Public Library 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- Wesleyan Methodist Church
- The Cricketers Arms public house
- 19 Market Place
- King’s Church (former Congregational Chapel and Schoolroom)
- Railings around the north, west and south sides of Selby Abbey Churchyard
- The Market Cross, Market Place
- York County Savings Bank
- 7 and 9 Gowthorpe
- 2 Gowthorpe
- 2 Finkle Street