Marshall House and Attached Area Railings
MARSHALL HOUSE AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS, 53, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384185
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Marshall House and Attached Area Railings
- Statutory Address:
- MARSHALL HOUSE AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS, 53, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384185
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Marshall House and Attached Area Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARSHALL HOUSE AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS, 53, MAIN STREET
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:
- MARSHALL HOUSE AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS, 53, MAIN STREET
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 65820 92134
Details
SEDBERGH
SD6592SE MAIN STREET, Sedbergh Town
162-1/26/415 (South side)
16/03/54 No.53
Marshall House and attached area
railings
GV II
Town house. Mid C18; altered. Colour-washed roughcast render
(rear of random rubble with quoins), slate roof with stone
chimneys. Double-depth double-fronted plan.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, now with 4 windows at 1st floor but
originally with 5. Offset right of centre is a doorway with
moulded stone surround and segmental pediment, panelled door
with glazed panels in the centre and top. Left of the doorway
is a 2-storey flat-roofed canted bay window with hornless 12-
and 8-pane sashes; all other windows are hornless 12-pane
sashes. Attached to the front wall each side of the doorway
are cast-iron bar railings with anthemion heads. Attached to
the left corner at 1st-floor level is a lantern on a bracket.
Rear: 3 storeys and 4 windows (including 2 vertically aligned
stair windows offset left), all except the lower of these
being 12-pane sashes with exposed boxes; back door now covered
by recently-built link to former single-storey wash-house
(which is not of special interest).
INTERIOR: right-hand front room has fielded panelling and fine
mid C18 stone fireplace with moulded surround and corbelled
lintel with fluted key, and above this an overmantel made of
ex situ C17 panelling dated 1686; rear hallway has fine
mid-C18 doglegged staircase with closed string, square newels,
turned balusters and broad moulded handrail; in the corner of
the half-landing between 1st and 2nd floors, an extremely
unusual shallow triangular lead-lined sink with a drain hole,
thought to have been provided as gentlemen's urinal.
HISTORICAL NOTE: built for Thomas Swettenham.
Listing NGR: SD6582092134
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484617
- 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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