School House at Sedbergh School
SCHOOL HOUSE AT SEDBERGH SCHOOL, LOFTUS HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384174
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- School House at Sedbergh School
- Statutory Address:
- SCHOOL HOUSE AT SEDBERGH SCHOOL, LOFTUS HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384174
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- School House at Sedbergh School
- Statutory Address 1:
- SCHOOL HOUSE AT SEDBERGH SCHOOL, LOFTUS HILL
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:
- SCHOOL HOUSE AT SEDBERGH SCHOOL, LOFTUS HILL
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 65828 91681
Details
SEDBERGH
SD6591 LOFTUS HILL, Sedbergh Town
162-1/20/405 (West side)
14/06/84 School House at Sedbergh School
GV II
Boarding house of Sedbergh School. 1878, by Paley & Austin,
apparently enlarged and slightly altered. Coursed sandstone
rubble, slate roof. Irregular H-plan formed by main range on
east-west axis with short projecting east and west wings (the
latter with a gabled cross-wing at its south end) and a tower
at the north-east corner. Subdued Jacobean style.
EXTERIOR: two-and-a-half storeys, a 6-window main range, with
2 buttresses (the second carried up to a chimney), and a
string-course over the ground floor; 9-light
mullion-and-transom windows on both floors of the 1st bay, a
similar window at ground floor of the 2nd bay and a 2-light
mullion window above, cross-windows at ground floor and
2-light windows at 1st floor of the other bays; gabled dormers
in the roof. Both wings are in similar style, but with less
regular fenestration, including multiple-light mullioned
windows in the gables, and have coped gables with kneelers.
The south end of the west return of the west wing achieves a
better stylistic effect, consisting of 3 gabled 2-window bays,
that in the centre having a half-dormer gable and that to the
right breaking forwards as a short wing, with a large canted
bay window to the 1st bay and a very prominent 5-sided bay
window to the 3rd bay, cross-window fenestration throughout
the ground floor, 2-light mullioned windows throughout the 1st
floor, one 4-light mullioned window to the top of each bay,
and gable coping with kneelers; further north the fenestration
is less regular. The tower at the north-east corner is square,
rises one stage above the eaves, has a louvred 1-light belfry
window in each side with a hoodmould, a coped parapet and a
pyramidal roof with a weathervane.
INTERIOR: fireplaces and staircase in corresponding style, and
datestone lettered 1878.
Listing NGR: SD6581691682
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484606
- 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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