The College of Ripon and York St John Main Building is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1991. College.
The College of Ripon and York St John Main Building
- WRENN ID
- pale-passage-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1991
- Type
- College
- Address
- The College of Ripon and York St John Main Building, Coltsgate Hill
- OS grid reference
- SE 309 718
- Coordinates
- 54.1413, -1.52788
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The College of Ripon and York St John Main Building is a college constructed in 1862, designed by G T Andrews. It features red brick with ashlar dressings and hipped slate roofs that have overhanging eaves. The building has a moulded plinth, a first-floor cill band, and second-floor cill and lintel bands.
The central block is three stories high and consists of seven bays, flanked by two-storey single bay pavilions. The central block has a doorway that is accessed by three steps, featuring a segment-headed ashlar surround with a raised keystone and a segmental pediment. On either side of the doorway are three paired segment-headed sash windows, which have slightly projecting pilaster surrounds topped with flat hoods. Above these are seven smaller paired segment-headed sashes with flat hooded ashlar surrounds, followed by fourteen smaller sashes with raised ashlar surrounds, each topped with a small ashlar circle.
On either side of the central block are two-storey single bay links, each containing a segment-headed sash in an ashlar surround with a flat hood, and above, a similar sash in a plain ashlar surround with a flat hood. Beyond these links are single-storey pavilions with pyramidal slate roofs, featuring pairs of segment-headed sashes in slightly projecting pilaster surrounds with flat hoods, and above, single similar sashes with ashlar surrounds and bracketed hoods.
Local climate
The College of Ripon and York St John Main Building receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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