York County Savings Bank is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. Bank.
York County Savings Bank
- WRENN ID
- inner-groin-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Selby MP: Keir Mather (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- York County Savings Bank, 1, Gowthorpe, Selby, YO8 4HE
- OS grid reference
- SE 613 323
- Coordinates
- 53.7838, -1.07001
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The York County Savings Bank is a late 19th-century building located on Gowthorpe, constructed from red brick with ashlar dressings and featuring a pitched slate roof. It stands two storeys high with attics and includes a string course. The building has a polygonal angle turret that is corbelled out, adorned with transomed windows and topped with a conical roof and finial. On the first floor, there are two mullion-and-transomed windows on each side, while the ground floor features three round-arched windows per side, complete with moulded impost bands and hoodmoulds. Each side of the building has an attic gable, each with a crocketed finial and mullioned windows. The front door is topped by a pediment that displays a coat of arms and the words "Local Board Offices" in the tympanum.
This building served as a local board office, established in response to the Education Act of 1870. In 1902, the Education Act abolished the school boards and established new local education authorities. The office was eventually replaced and sold to become the Yorkshire County Savings Bank, which operated there until 1995. Since then, the building has been used for various bars and restaurants.
Local climate
York County Savings Bank 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.
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