School house and attached school room at Brampton Ellis Junior School

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SOUTH YORKSHIRE ROTHERHAM WATH UPON DEARNE BRAMPTON ROAD (north side) School-house and attached school-room at Brampton Ellis Junior School

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House with attached school-room. House probably mid C18, altered and school-room rebuilt 1791; later alterations. Coursed, squared sandstone; tile and Welsh slate roofs. three-storey, three-bay house with continuous outshut to rear; two-bay single-storey school-room to left, set back.

House: plinth, large quoins. Central doorway with C20 door in stone surround; added wood surround with pediment. Flanking sashes with margin lights in square-faced surrounds with projecting sills. Three similar windows to first floor. Three shorter windows to second floor have casements with glazing bars. Gable copings; renewed brick end stacks.

Schoolroom: central door in square-faced surround, now window. Flanking two-light windows: renewed casements in tall square-faced surrounds with stone mullions. Inscribed plaque over door; sundial with decorative iron gnomon over. Hipped roof to left, ridge ventilator.

Inscription on plaque reads:

This Charity-School and House were rebuilt in the Year 1791 by the Order of the Right Honle Earl Fitzwilliam The Very Revd. John Fountayne DD Rowland Hodgson Rector of Rawmarsh t Andrew Warde, William Oates, Francis Edmunds and Thomas Hewett Esqrs. TRUSTEES for this CHARITY

George Ellis (1627-1712) of Brampton Hall, Brampton Bierlow bequeathed a sum of money to establish this and other local schools in his will of 1711. The school, as rebuilt in 1791, was to cater for twenty children in the single school-room.

Additions to rear and left return not of special interest.

Reproduction of the will of George Ellis in possession of the headmaster.

Listing NGR: SE4177501138