Evans House and Attached Area Railings to the Front
EVANS HOUSE AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS TO THE FRONT, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384193
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Evans House and Attached Area Railings to the Front
- Statutory Address:
- EVANS HOUSE AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS TO THE FRONT, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384193
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Evans House and Attached Area Railings to the Front
- Statutory Address 1:
- EVANS HOUSE AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS TO THE FRONT, 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:
- EVANS HOUSE AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS TO THE FRONT, 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 65667 92107
Details
SEDBERGH
SD6592SE MAIN STREET, Sedbergh Town
162-1/26/422 (South side)
16/03/54 Evans House and attached area
railings to the front
(Formerly Listed as:
MAIN STREET
Original block, C19 extension to E &
former stables to Evans House)
GV II
Town house, now boarding house of Sedbergh School. 1750-59,
with late C19 extension to east; altered. Roughcast render on
rubble, with rusticated quoins, slate roof. Double-depth
double-fronted plan, plus extension to east. Georgian style.
EXTERIOR: the principal element, 3 storeys with basement and
attic, 5 windows, symmetrical, has a square-headed doorway
with a pedimented Ionic architrave composed of engaged columns
with a pulvinated frieze and dentilled cornice, and a door
with 12 raised fielded panels in 3 tiers; a round-headed
hornless sashed window above the doorway, with thick radiating
glazing bars; segmental-headed sashed windows to the ground
and 1st floors, those to the right 4-paned but all the others
12-paned; shorter square-headed windows at 2nd floor, all
9-pane sashes except the 2nd which is a casement. All these
windows have raised run-out sills. The roof has a flat-topped
attic dormer in the centre, and gable chimneys. Continued to
the left is the C19 extension, 3 storeys to the same height,
1:3 windows, the 3-window portion slightly set back, with
matching windows except that at ground floor to the right
which is 18-paned, with the sill at ground level (perhaps
formerly a doorway), while the 1-window portion to the left
has wider windows (two 8-pane sashed lights at ground floor,
and sashes of 16 and 12 panes at 1st and 2nd floors
respectively). Enclosing a shallow front area for the full
length are spear railings on a low stone plinth, with a
gateway in line with the doorway. Rear: random rubble with
rusticated quoins, 3-storeys over exposed basement, the
5-window main range having a large round-headed sashed
stair-window in the centre with rubble voussoirs and radiating
glazing bars, and other windows all square-headed but
otherwise similar to those at the front; back doorway up 6
steps to left of centre, with fielded panel door protected by
simple porch of monolith stone slate slabs with hipped roof.
C19 extension set back to right, with small-paned sashes (30
panes at ground and 1st floors, 20 panes at 2nd floor), and
C20 fire-escape at east end.
INTERIOR: entrance hallway with fluted pilasters to plastered
beam, doorways with moulded architraves, and very good mid-C18
dog-legged open-string staircase with scrolled brackets, 3
slender turned balusters per tread, ramped handrail with
wreathed curtail; fireplace in front ground-floor room,moulded
decoration including foliated side and top panels, and a
phoenix in the centre.
Forms group with associated walled garden to rear (qv).
Listing NGR: SD6566792107
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484626
- 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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