Powell Hall at Sedbergh School
POWELL HALL AT SEDBERGH SCHOOL, STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384216
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Powell Hall at Sedbergh School
- Statutory Address:
- POWELL HALL AT SEDBERGH SCHOOL, STATION ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384216
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Oct-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Powell Hall at Sedbergh School
- Statutory Address 1:
- POWELL HALL AT SEDBERGH SCHOOL, STATION ROAD
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:
- POWELL HALL AT SEDBERGH SCHOOL, STATION ROAD
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 65472 91940
Details
SEDBERGH
SD6591 STATION ROAD, Sedbergh Town
162-1/20/434 (North side)
14/06/84 Powell Hall at Sedbergh School
(Formerly Listed as:
BUSK LANE
Powell Hall at Sedbergh School)
GV II
School assembly hall with combined classrooms. 1904-6, by
Paley & Austin. Snecked sandstone with freestone quoins and
dressings, green slate roof. Hall on north-south axis with
narthex at south end, canted apse at north end, and gabled
classroom wings on west side. Perpendicular style.
EXTERIOR: tall single-storey hall, 2-storey classroom wings.
The gabled south front of the hall, with angle-buttresses and
gable coping with extended kneelers, has a rectangular
single-storey flat-roofed and parapeted narthex with a doorway
to the left and mullioned windows with arched lights, and the
gable above has cruciform fenestration with a tall 4-stage
transomed window flanked by mullioned windows, all the lights
arched. Its 8-bay east side, which has a Tudor-arched doorway
to the 1st bay and a square-headed doorway in the 5th, is
distinguished by 3 wide full-height canted oriel windows
alternating with narrower bays which have 3-light mullioned
clerestory windows, a string course and high parapet carried
over the whole. The north apse has buttresses, one
incorporating a foundation stone dated 1904. All the windows
now have leaded double-glazing in wooden frames. The
classrooms on the west side are in 3 linked gabled wings, that
at the north end projected, all with mullioned and transomed
windows on both floors, and each with a wooden cupola on the
ridge.
INTERIOR: impressive hall with north stage, south gallery,
panelled dado and hammerbeam roof with enclosed coving;
corridors to classrooms on both floors, with staircase at
north end.
Forms group with classroom block to east (qv) and War Memorial
Cloister (qv) to south of that.
Listing NGR: SD6547291940
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484649
- 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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