Brampton Hall

Brampton Hall is a manor house that has been converted into a public house. It has a timber-framed core consisting of two builds from around 1500 and 1550. The building was encased and altered in the 18th and 19th centuries and underwent extensive renovations around 1982. The exterior features internal timber-framing, coursed sandstone rubble, and a 20th-century tile roof. The current layout has a cruciform plan, which includes a two-bay single-aisled hall block in the rear wing and a single bay of an earlier cross-wing to the front right. The windows have been replaced with casements that include glazing bars.

The entrance front is two storeys high with three windows and features quoins. The gabled central part projects forward and has a 20th-century door with a plain stone lintel, along with a first-floor window located beneath an eaves band. Each side of the entrance wing is set back and has a window on each floor, with the lintels crafted to resemble voussoirs. There is a small 20th-century stack at the right end. The rear wing has rebuilt walling and a facsimile of timber-framing on the upper part of the left return, which includes two reproduction wood-mullioned windows.

Inside, there is an ashlar fireplace with a keyed arch in the ground-floor room to the right. The back of this room, which was once a cross passage in the rear wing, features the chamfered jambs of another fireplace that now serves as a bar. The timber-framing is prominently displayed in the first-floor rooms. In the c1500 cross-wing, there are vertical and diagonal wall studs, two king-post roof trusses with struts parallel to the principals, and curved braces to the ridge. The rear wing contains three c1550 king-post trusses and double purlins. Each phase of framing has a distinct series of carpenter's marks. Notably, the hall block has always been two storeys with a two-storey aisle. The extent of the timber-framing is illustrated in P. F. Ryder's "Medieval Buildings of Yorkshire," published in 1982.