School house and attached school room at Brampton Ellis Junior School

The building is a school house with an attached school room located at Brampton Ellis Junior School. The house likely dates from the mid-18th century, while the school room was rebuilt in 1791, with later alterations. It is constructed of coursed, squared sandstone and features tile and Welsh slate roofs. The house is three stories high with three bays and has a continuous outshut at the rear. The single-storey school room to the left is set back and has two bays.

The house includes a plinth and large quoins. The central doorway has a 20th-century door within a stone surround, which is enhanced by an added wooden surround with a pediment. On either side of the door are sash windows with margin lights, set in square-faced surrounds with projecting sills. The first floor has three similar windows, while the second floor features three shorter windows with casements and glazing bars. The gable copings and renewed brick end stacks complete the house's exterior.

The school room has a central door in a square-faced surround, which is now a window. It is flanked by two-light windows with renewed casements in tall square-faced surrounds that include stone mullions. Above the door is an inscribed plaque, and there is a sundial with a decorative iron gnomon above it. The school room has a hipped roof to the left, with a ridge ventilator.

The plaque inscribed above the door 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 and Andrew Warde, William Oates, Francis Edmunds and Thomas Hewett Esqrs. TRUSTEES for this CHARITY."

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

There are additions to the rear and left return that are not of special interest. A reproduction of George Ellis's will is kept in the possession of the headmaster.