Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26664044

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Recommended Books

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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)