The Old Grammar School (Now The School Library)

SEDBERGH

SD6592SE BACK LANE, Sedbergh Town 162-1/26/394 (South side) 16/03/54 The Old Grammar School (now the School Library)

GV II*

Grammar school, now library. Dated 1716 on original doorway in west front; altered in C19, internally remodelled in 1957-8 by Sir Albert Richardson. Random rubble with lacing courses, freestone quoins and dressings, stone slate roof. Rectangular plan on east-west axis, with original entrance in west gable end. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. The gabled west front, with raised rusticated quoins, a plain 1st-floor string-course carried round and a band over the upper floor, gable copings with kneelers and a corniced gable chimney. Round-headed doorway (now blocked internally) with pilaster jambs, moulded imposts, moulded head with keystone, double doors each with 2 bolection-moulded panels, and a fanlight with radiating glazing bars. Doorway framed by a pilastered architrave which has entablatures to the pilasters inscribed "17" (left) and "16" (right), a triglyph frieze and a segmental pediment; and in the centre of the upper floor a rectangular wall tablet with moulded surround and cornice, containing a carved shield. The 7-window north and south side walls, both very regular, have round-headed windows on both floors, the lower much taller then the upper, all with raised sills and pilastered architraves with imposts and keystones, and all with renewed wooden mullions and transoms, and small-paned leaded glazing. Both sides have moulded gutters on curved metal brackets, and the south side has one rainwater head between the 4th and 5th windows. The east gable end, with gable copings and chimney like the west end, has an ex situ C17 doorway and door. INTERIOR: remodelled by lowering of ground floor and insertion of galleries in this room; restored dog-legged staircase at east end, with closed string, square newels with ball finials, turned balusters and moulded handrail.

Listing NGR: SD6577492028