Powell Hall At Sedbergh School

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