Sedgwick House School
SEDGWICK HOUSE SCHOOL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1336058
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Sedgwick House School
- Statutory Address:
- SEDGWICK HOUSE SCHOOL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1336058
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Sedgwick House School
- Statutory Address 1:
- SEDGWICK HOUSE SCHOOL
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SEDGWICK HOUSE SCHOOL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sedgwick
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 51011 87012
Details
SD 58 NW SEDGWICK Sedgwick
2/25 Sedgwick House School
II
House; now school, dated 1868, by Paley and Austin for William Henry Wakefield. Coursed tooled sandstone, ashlar and granite dressings. Graduated greenslate roof; chimneys with conjoined octagonal corniced shafts. 2 storeys plus attics. 5 bays each to entrance front and garden front at right angles. Entrance front has projecting central 4-storey battlemented tower flanked by a dormers with stone turret. Porte-cochere in front with W (for Wakefield) on parapet. At left: single-storey extension with raised, glazed attic; clock tower on service wing to rear. garden front has outer projecting gabled bays with 2-storey canted bay windows. Ground floor windows have traceried heads and hood moulds with patterned stops, some with polished granite baluster mullions. Upper windows 2-or 5-light sashes with stone mullions and 2-centred heads to lights. 1st floor window to tower has Wakefield Coat of Arms above transom, 2nd floor windows Decorated style tracery. Interior has full height Hall with hammer beam roofs, staircase with opening string, decorative balusters and moulded handrail. Elaborate plaster ceilings, fireplaces, panelled doors, moulded skirtings, architraves and dado panelling throughout ground floor.
Listing NGR: SD5101187012
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 76463
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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