Evans House And Attached Area Railings To The Front

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