Electricity Sub-Station is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1952. Electricity sub-station, former chapel, former grammar school.

Electricity Sub-Station

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 April 1952
Type
Electricity sub-station, former chapel, former grammar school
Address
Electricity Sub-Station, Newmarket Street, Skipton
OS grid reference
SD 994 516
Coordinates
53.96106, -2.01033
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is an electricity sub-station, originally a chapel of the Knights Hospitallers, which became a grammar school in 1548. It is a rectangular structure made of stone rubble. The gabled front features a projecting strip that creates a panelled appearance. There is a small triangular-headed window at the peak of the gable, along with a central stepped three-light window that has a moulded dripstone, splayed reveals, mullions, and transoms. The entrance is located on the left and has a new lintel with old jambs. The steeply pitched roof is covered with graded stone flags and has moulded coping with springers, finials, and octagonal stone chimneys. On the return sides, there are four "cross" windows that include stone mullions and transoms.

Local climate

Electricity Sub-Station 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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