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This collection contains minute books, accounts and various scrapbooks of the York Assembly Rooms.

Copy Petition of the Freeholders of the County of York to Parliament to remedy inadequate representation of the commons of the realm. Copy itself is not dated.

Loose receipt recording a payment "received by the Gentlemen Directors of the New York Assembly Rooms in York the sum of ninety and five pounds, nineteen shillings, one penny, being the balance of Mr Ascough's Account. Received for their use and the use of the rest of the Proprietors of the saif building by me, Reuben Terry Howard".

Floor plan for the proposed Festival Concert Rooms, attached to the rear of the York Assembly Rooms. The plan shows the proposed location for the concert hall in relation to existing buildings, and the proposed internal layout.

The Festival Concert Rooms were designed by Atkinson and Sharpe, and were constructed in 1825. Originally only accessed through the Assembly Rooms, an entrance was later created from Museum Street, probably as part of the programme to widen the street during to the construction of Lendal Bridge in the 1860s. The building was demolished in 1974.