The Hall

SO 37 SE BRAMPTON BRYAN CP -

5/29 The Hall (formerly listed as Brampton 11.6.59 Bryan Hall)

GV II*

House. C17 and C18 with earlier origins and later alterations. Brick, dressed sandstone and squared sandstone rubble. Hipped Welsh slate roof and brick stacks. Roughly rectangular plan with main front to south. Cellar and three storeys. South elevation has 2:3:2 windows, glazing bar sashes under gauged brick heads. Advanced pedimented centre and wooden eaves cornice. Quoins to corners and corners of advanced centre. Probably early C20 central entry with glazed door and bracketted stone canopy above which volutes flank 6-pane window. In front of elevation is a balustrade. West elevation has balustraded porch, probably late C19, with four C19 Ruscan columns in which is 8-panelled C18 door with side lights and wide fanlight: Above the porch are two thin stone pilasters rising to eaves. North elevation has squared sandstone rubble centre part with two tall round- headed windows. Interior has ex-situ C19 doors, mid-C19 main staircase with turned balusters. To rear is four-flight c1665 open-well newel staircase in oak with turned balusters. One principal room on south side has fine modillioned C18 plaster cornice and contemporary marble fireplace. The Hall is the home of the descendants of Sir Robert Harley, First Earl of Oxford whose monument is in the Church of St Barnabas (qv).

Listing NGR: SO3699772589