Classroom Block to East of Powell Hall at Sedbergh School
CLASSROOM BLOCK TO EAST OF POWELL HALL AT SEDBERGH SCHOOL, STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384217
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Classroom Block to East of Powell Hall at Sedbergh School
- Statutory Address:
- CLASSROOM BLOCK TO EAST OF POWELL HALL AT SEDBERGH SCHOOL, STATION ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384217
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Oct-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Classroom Block to East of Powell Hall at Sedbergh School
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLASSROOM BLOCK TO EAST OF 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:
- CLASSROOM BLOCK TO EAST OF 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 65523 91933
Details
SEDBERGH
SD6591 STATION ROAD, Sedbergh Town
162-1/20/433 (South side)
14/06/84 Classroom block to east of Powell
Hall at Sedbergh School
(Formerly Listed as:
BUSK LANE
Classroom Block immediately to east
of Powell Hall at Sedbergh School)
GV II
School classroom block. 1879-1889, by Austin & Paley; with C20
addition; slightly altered. Snecked sandstone, graduated green
slate roof. Wide irregular H-plan formed by main range on
east-west axis with short crosswing and porch at west end and
longer crosswing at east end. Tudor style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic, now 2:2:2 windows (but formerly
2:3:1); with a chamfered plinth, weathered string course,
parapet with ridged coping. The west wing and integral porch
in its re-entrant angle, have 2 unequal gables, that to the
porch set back behind a parapet run out from the gable coping
of the wing: the porch has a shallow full-height canted bay
containing a depressed arched doorway with moulded surround
and Perpendicular-style carved ornament over the head, flanked
by small arched windows (1 and 2 lights to the left, 2 lights
to the right), and a large triple cross-window at 1st floor;
the gable of the wing to the left has a pair of cross-windows
at ground floor, a transomed 6-light window at 1st floor, a
lancet in the gable and ridged coping with kneelers and an
apex finial. The main range has 2 transomed 6-light windows at
ground floor, two 3-light mullioned windows at 1st floor and 3
gabled dormers behind a parapet. In the re-entrant of the east
wing is a 2-storey flat-roofed addition in matching style. The
gable wall of the east wing has a pair of cross-windows at
ground floor, a carved shield above the string course, a
3-stage transomed 9-light window at 1st floor with a
hoodmould, and gable detailing like the west wing. All the
transomed windows have arched upper lights with hollow
spandrels, but all the windows except those in the addition
now have square-headed aluminium-framed double-glazing.
Octagonal ridge chimney offset right.
East and west side walls in similar style, with gables. Rear
has (inter alia) 3 tall 3-stage transomed 9-light windows at
1st floor rising into gables.
INTERIOR: not inspected. Forms group with War Memorial
Cloister (qv) forming a forecourt to the front, and with
Powell Hall to the west (qv).
Listing NGR: SD6552391933
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484650
- 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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