Through the Looking Glass is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1966. A C18 Commercial building.
Through the Looking Glass
- WRENN ID
- grey-eave-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1966
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- Through the Looking Glass, Market Place, Masham
- OS grid reference
- SE 225 807
- Coordinates
- 54.22203, -1.65632
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Through The Looking Glass is a house that has been converted into commercial premises, dating from the mid-18th century. It is constructed of coursed rubblestone with ashlar dressings and features a Welsh slate roof. The building has two storeys and six first-floor windows.
The central part of the facade includes a late 19th-century shopfront, which has a door and a bay window on either side, along with a frieze, consoles, and a cornice. On the left side, there is a 16-pane side-sliding sash window, while on the right side, there is a 12-pane side-sliding sash window with a plain stone surround. To the far right, there is a blocked doorway with a plain stone surround.
On the first floor, there are two unequally-hung 12-pane sash windows with cement lintels and sills on the left, and the remaining windows are 12-pane side-sliding sashes with rendered plain stone surrounds. A white brick ridge stack is present on the roof.
Local climate
Through the Looking Glass receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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