The North Bar is a fifteenth-century brick gateway and the only surviving medieval town gate in the old East Riding. Built between 1409 and 1410, it is also one of the earliest substantial brick structures in England, predating the Tudor brick revival by several decades. Traffic still passes through it, which gives it an unforced sense of being a working part of the town rather than a museum piece.
Walk through the arch and look back: it is the obvious threshold between the medieval town inside and the residential streets and the Westwood common that lie beyond it.