Bramley Grange Bramley Grange Farmhouse

Bramley Grange and Bramley Grange Farmhouse comprise a house with an attached farmhouse, dating to the 16th century with substantial additions and alterations in the 17th and 18th centuries, and a 18th-century wing. The building has a fragmentary timber-framed core, encased in coursed squared sandstone, and is roofed with Welsh slate.

The main range of Bramley Grange is a two-storey, five-by-two bay house. A chamfered plinth and large quoins are visible externally. The central doorway has a bolection-moulded surround with a keystone featuring a carved rosette, and a consoled segmental pediment above. Flanking this are 20th-century casements with glazing bars, projecting sills, architraves (those in bays four and five are cemented), and dripmoulds. A central window on the first floor is framed by a rusticated, shouldered, and eared architrave, with a continuous hoodmould over the flanking windows that mirrors those on the ground floor. A coped parapet rises to a small central false gable with a finial.

Bramley Grange Farmhouse, set back to the left, is constructed of horizontally-tooled wallstone with large quoins on the left side. It features a part-glazed door in an ashlar surround, flanked on the right by a 20th-century bay projection and on the left by a curved bay window. The first floor has 16-pane sashes in square-faced surrounds, with a small window to the far right. Three blind windows are set into the second floor. Shaped kneelers, gable copings, and a rendered end stack with a round-headed bellcote to the rear are also present, as are two rendered ridge stacks.

The right return of Bramley Grange shows two blacked double-chamfered cross windows on each floor, with dripmoulds. The end of the rear range incorporates a 20th-century block not of special interest. A blocked double-chamfered two-light window sits within the plinth, a transomed single-light window is on the first floor, and an enlarged window is positioned above.

Inside Bramley Grange, the front-left room has been much-restored and features plasterwork with a bolection-moulded fireplace and an overmantel panel. The ceiling has voluted pilasters to the ribs. The front-right room contains three-high oak panels featuring a frieze of grapes and foliage, and a square-headed ashlar fireplace with a replica datestone inscribed ‘W 1637 S’. The first floor of the front-right room is also panelled with bolection-moulded architraves to fielded panels. The front-left room has early 17th-century plasterwork over the mantelpiece, depicting three figures, one wielding a mallet and sickle, another with a bird, and a third with an infant, with panels incorporating masks between the figures. A ground-floor room in Bramley Grange Farmhouse has an exposed datestone inscribed 'ES/1716' within a shield.

The site was formerly part of a grange belonging to Roche Abbey, which passed to the Spencer family after the Dissolution. Details of the fragmentary framing in the rear range are recorded in the South Yorkshire County Ancient Monuments and Sites Record.