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SD 8064-8164
12/16

GIGGLESWICK
CRAVEN BANK LANE (north side)
Giggleswick School Hostel

GV
II

Hostel and dining hall. 1868 and 1875 by Austin and Paley. Gothic. Snecked stone, Westmorland slate roof. Tripartite composition: 1868 central three storeys, two bay entrance tower with recessed two storeys six bay wing to left. Left-hand projecting gabled three storeys bay and right-hand recessed two storeys five bay wing with projecting right-hand three storeys bay are additions of 1875. Entrance tower has left-hand entrance with four-centre head; moulded surround, plank doors. Four-light mullioned and transomed ground floor window to right with King mullion. First floor two-light and three-light mullioned and transomed windows. Second floor sill band. Two-two-light windows with cinquefoil cusped heads. Embattled tower to left-hand bay with gargoyles, gable to right with crocketted finial. Gabled end bays differ in treatment. Left-hand bay is broader and contains entrance and canted bay window. First floor three- and two-light mullioned and transomed windows. Four lancets to second floor. Right-hand bay two two-light mullioned and transomed windows with Y tracery on ground floor. Four-light mullioned and transomed window on first floor and two-light window with round-heads on second floor, crocketted finial. End bays are linked to centre by two-storey range of six and five bays respectively: two-light windows. Dormers have round-headed casements and projecting eaves with quartrefoils in gales. Left-hand, right-hand and central stacks. Louvred vents to wings.

Source E A Bell A History of Giggleswick School (Leeds, 1912'

Listing NGR: SD8085564142

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• Wikidata Q26424685

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