The Museum Hall is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1968. Museum.

The Museum Hall

WRENN ID
crumbling-brick-jet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Selby MP: Keir Mather (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 December 1968
Type
Museum
Address
The Museum Hall, Park Street, Selby
OS grid reference
SE 615 322
Coordinates
53.7828, -1.06715
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Museum Hall, built in 1839, was originally known as the Public Rooms and was established on land donated by the Honorable E R Petre, Lord of the Manor of Selby. It later became the Merchants' Institute in 1861 and then the Museum. The building is constructed of brown brick with stucco dressings and features a pitched slate roof. It has two storeys and includes a pediment, a first-floor band, and rusticated quoins on the ground floor. The façade consists of three bays, with segment-headed sash windows with rusticated surrounds on the ground floor and round-headed windows on the first floor, which have marginal glazing bars, moulded surrounds, and panelled aprons.

Local climate

The Museum Hall 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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