EVANS HOUSE AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS TO THE FRONT

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:: EVANS HOUSE AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS TO THE FRONT, MAIN STREET

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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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Legacy System number:: 484626
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.