The Old Grammar School (Now the School Library)
THE OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL (NOW THE SCHOOL LIBRARY), BACK LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1384071
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Grammar School (Now the School Library)
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL (NOW THE SCHOOL LIBRARY), BACK LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1384071
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Grammar School (Now the School Library)
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL (NOW THE SCHOOL LIBRARY), BACK LANE
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:
- THE OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL (NOW THE SCHOOL LIBRARY), BACK LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sedbergh
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 65775 92030
Details
SEDBERGH
SD6592SE BACK LANE, Sedbergh Town
162-1/26/394 (South side)
16/03/54 The Old Grammar School (now the
School Library)
GV II*
Grammar school, now library. Dated 1716 on original doorway in
west front; altered in C19, internally remodelled in 1957-8 by
Sir Albert Richardson. Random rubble with lacing courses,
freestone quoins and dressings, stone slate roof. Rectangular
plan on east-west axis, with original entrance in west gable
end.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. The gabled west front, with raised
rusticated quoins, a plain 1st-floor string-course carried
round and a band over the upper floor, gable copings with
kneelers and a corniced gable chimney. Round-headed doorway
(now blocked internally) with pilaster jambs, moulded imposts,
moulded head with keystone, double doors each with 2
bolection-moulded panels, and a fanlight with radiating
glazing bars. Doorway framed by a pilastered architrave which
has entablatures to the pilasters inscribed "17" (left) and
"16" (right), a triglyph frieze and a segmental pediment; and
in the centre of the upper floor a rectangular wall tablet
with moulded surround and cornice, containing a carved shield.
The 7-window north and south side walls, both very regular,
have round-headed windows on both floors, the lower much
taller then the upper, all with raised sills and pilastered
architraves with imposts and keystones, and all with renewed
wooden mullions and transoms, and small-paned leaded glazing.
Both sides have moulded gutters on curved metal brackets, and
the south side has one rainwater head between the 4th and 5th
windows. The east gable end, with gable copings and chimney
like the west end, has an ex situ C17 doorway and door.
INTERIOR: remodelled by lowering of ground floor and insertion
of galleries in this room; restored dog-legged staircase at
east end, with closed string, square newels with ball finials,
turned balusters and moulded handrail.
Listing NGR: SD6577492028
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484503
- 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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