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| Sedgwick House, Sedgwick | ||
| Sedgwick House | ||
| locality:- | Sedgwick | |
| civil parish:- | Sedgwick (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| coordinates:- | SD51038701 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD5187 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD58 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 42 4) placename:- Sedgwick House |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Sedgwick House School |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "SEDGWICK HOUSE SCHOOL / / / SEDGWICK / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76463 / SD5101187012" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "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." |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "GATEHOUSE TO SEDGWICK HOUSE SCHOOL / / / SEDGWICK / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76464 / SD5122887015" |
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| notes:- |
Built by the Wakefiled Family, 1869. They introduced the gunpowder industry here,
and were responsible for much building development. |
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| Paley and Austin series | ||
| person:- | architect : Paley, Edward G |
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| person:- | architect : Austin, Hubert J |
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| date:- | 1868 to 1869 |
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| New house in perpendicular gothic style. |
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