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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: Cumbria
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
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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