Brampton Hall

SE40SW BRAMPTON BIERLOW MANOR ROAD (north side)

2/8 Brampton Hall (formerly listed as Nos 2 and 2a (Brampton Hall)) 20-6-79 II

Manor house now public house. Timber-framed core of two builds; c1500 and c1550. Encased and altered in C18 and C19, extensively renovated c1982. Internal timber-framing, coursed sandstone rubble, C20 tile roof. Cruciform plan in present form incorporating 2-bay single-aisled hall block in rear wing and single bay of earlier cross-wing to front right. Rewindowed: casements with glazing bars. Entrance front: 2 storeys, 3 windows. Quoins. Gabled central part breaks forward; C20 door with plain stone lintel; 1st-floor window beneath eaves band. Wing set back to each side has window to each floor, lintels tooled as voussoirs. Small C20 end-stack to right. Rear wing: rebuilt walling, facsimile timber-framing to upper part of left return with 2 reproduction wood-mullioned windows.

Interior: ashlar fireplace with keyed arch in ground-floor room to right. Backing on to former cross passage in rear wing are the chamfered jambs of another fireplace (now bar). Timber-framing well-displayed in 1st-floor rooms. In c1500 cross-wing: vertical and diagonal wall studs, 2 king-post roof trusses with struts parallel to principals, curved braces to ridge. In rear wing: 3 c1550 king-post trusses, double purlins. Distinct series of carpenters marks to each phase of framing. The hall block is particularly unusual in that it has always been 2-storey with a 2-storey aisle.

Extent of timber-framing illustrated in P. F. Ryder, Medieval Buildings of Yorkshire, 1982, p138.

Listing NGR: SE4157301226