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Sedgwick House School

A Grade II Listed Building in Sedgwick, Westmorland and Furness

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.2764 / 54°16'35"N

Longitude: -2.7538 / 2°45'13"W

OS Eastings: 351011

OS Northings: 487012

OS Grid: SD510870

Mapcode National: GBR 9L6Z.LS

Mapcode Global: WH832.NSV0

Plus Code: 9C6V76GW+HF

Entry Name: Sedgwick House School

Listing Date: 19 July 1984

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1336058

English Heritage Legacy ID: 76463

Also known as: Sedgwick House

ID on this website: 101336058

Location: Sedgwick, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, LA8

County: Westmorland and Furness

District: South Lakeland

Civil Parish: Sedgwick

Traditional County: Westmorland

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cumbria

Church of England Parish: Crosscrake St Thomas

Church of England Diocese: Carlisle

Tagged with: School building English country house

Description


SD 58 NW SEDGWICK Sedgwick

2/25 Sedgwick House School

II

House; now school, dated 1868, by Paley and Austin for William Henry Wakefield. Coursed tooled sandstone, ashlar and granite dressings. Graduated greenslate roof; chimneys with conjoined octagonal corniced shafts. 2 storeys plus attics. 5 bays each to entrance front and garden front at right angles. Entrance front has projecting central 4-storey battlemented tower flanked by a dormers with stone turret. Porte-cochere in front with W (for Wakefield) on parapet. At left: single-storey extension with raised, glazed attic; clock tower on service wing to rear. garden front has outer projecting gabled bays with 2-storey canted bay windows. Ground floor windows have traceried heads and hood moulds with patterned stops, some with polished granite baluster mullions. Upper windows 2-or 5-light sashes with stone mullions and 2-centred heads to lights. 1st floor window to tower has Wakefield Coat of Arms above transom, 2nd floor windows Decorated style tracery. Interior has full height Hall with hammer beam roofs, staircase with opening string, decorative balusters and moulded handrail. Elaborate plaster ceilings, fireplaces, panelled doors, moulded skirtings, architraves and dado panelling throughout ground floor.

Listing NGR: SD5101187012

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