UNDERLEY HALL SCHOOL

UNDERLEY HALL SCHOOL, UNDERLEY PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1311597
Date first listed:: 05-Mar-1982
List Entry Name:: UNDERLEY HALL SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: UNDERLEY HALL SCHOOL, UNDERLEY PARK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1311597
Date first listed:: 05-Mar-1982
Date of most recent amendment:: 22-Mar-1983
List Entry Name:: UNDERLEY HALL SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: UNDERLEY HALL SCHOOL, UNDERLEY PARK

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: UNDERLEY HALL SCHOOL, UNDERLEY PARK

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Kirkby Lonsdale
National Park:: YORKSHIRE DALES
National Grid Reference:: SD 61504 80135

Details

UNDERLEY PARK 1. 5166 Underley Hall School. (Formerly listed as Underley Hall) SD 68 SW 2/142 5.3.82 II* GV

2. 1825-8 and 1872. By George Webster, altered and enlarged by Paley and Austin. Jacobean. Two storeys with towers. Ashlar, with slate roofs and lead cupolas. Older part was planned as a quadrangle with symmetrically composed facades to south and east. The south (former entrance) facade is of seven bays with canted bays to first and last through both storeys. Plinth, two strings and openwork parapet closed by square turrets at either end with ogee cupolas. Mullioned and transomed windows of two lights except to the canted bays which have five. Two storey porch of coupled columns, Doric below and Ionic above. "1825" in cartouche over door. The east facade is of five bays. End bays, turrets and decorative features as above. Across the central bays is a one-storey Roman Doric tetrastyle porch with elaborate strap- work cresting. On the west side is the service wing with gabled dormers and no parapet, and the present entrance under a three storey tower probably of the later build. The newer part of the house lies to the north and comprises additional rooms and extensive stable and offices. The detail of the original block is continued except for a four-storey tower with clasping, turrets and an openwork parapet of Gothic arches. At its base is a square bay window of six lights on ground and first floors framed by Doric and Ionic pilasters respectively. The stable court has decorated cast iron and glass canopy. The chapel was added in 1965 to the east by Building Design Partnership, connected by a corridor to second build. The chapel is not of special interest. Interior. Mostly by Paley and Austin. In vestibule plaque with "A.C.N. 1825". Dining room has ceiling of moulded ribs in Tudor style and panelling with Ionic pilasters. Fireplace in keeping. Similar panelling to former entrance hall, and drawing room which also has fireplace of white marble by Webster with coupled Ionic pilasters. The library in the later wing is Palladian with applied Ionic pilasters. The staircase, by Webster, is entirely cased in panelling of cruciform design and has a ceiling pattern of ribs and pendants enclosing Tudor motifs. Wide dogleg stair in two flights. Terrace to south of house with retaining walls in keeping, and similar gatepiers a little to the west on drive to Kearstwick. On terrace to east of house (floor of former conservatory) large square stone vessel with Italian Romanesque decoration resting on four lions, probably C19. Built for Alexander Nowell MP, and extended for the Earl of Bective. One of the first great houses of the Jacobean revival, recognised as such by Henry Shaw. (Details of Elizabethan Architecture, 1839) and the first house of this size to be built in Westmorland since Levens. The work of both periods was executed to a high standard, with surprising scholarship in Webster's case. The house formed the subject of the only drawings he ever sent to the Royal Academy exhibition and it is one of his major surviving works.

Listing NGR: SD6150480135

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Legacy System:: LBS

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Details of Elizabethan Architecture, (1839)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.