Classroom Block To East Of Powell Hall At Sedbergh School

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