Brantham Hall

Brantham Hall is a house with origins dating back to the 15th century or earlier, featuring later additions and alterations. It is constructed from timber framing, with some red brickwork from the 15th and 16th centuries, and a painted brick facade from the 18th and 19th centuries. The building has a hipped grey slate roof on the front range and a red plain tiled roof on the rear range. There are two large red brick chimney stacks, one located off centre to the left and the other to the right. The house is two storeys high with a cellar and has a window arrangement of two large windows, one smaller window, and two more large windows, all of which are small paned vertically sliding sashes. Notably, there is an angled bay window on the left side that extends over two storeys.

To the left of the bay, there is a four-light door composed of two panels, topped with a fanlight, and flanked by panelled pilasters and a flat canopy supported by scroll brackets. To the right of the bay, there is another four-panelled door with a fanlight above, surrounded by a moulded surround, pilasters, and columns that have capitals and bases supporting an entablature with a mutule cornice. The original rear range includes a crosswing on the right that projects forward in line with the front range. The right return of the building displays exposed red brickwork from the 15th and 19th centuries, which has been extensively repaired, featuring a first-floor window with three chamfered round-headed lights beneath a square head. A brick cellar beneath this crosswing contains small pointed head niches and blocked four-centred arches.

Inside, the main rooms of the original structure showcase fine moulded bridging joists, and many of the ceiling beams are exposed. The front first-floor room in the crosswing has a cambered tie beam and a ceiling with moulded bridging and ceiling joists, along with jowled storey posts. There are two fully panelled rooms from the 17th century on the first floor; one has a coved ceiling, while the other features a cambered ceiling with moulded beams. Heavy turned balusters have been reused at the top of the servants' stairs, and the main staircase is adorned with stick balusters and a wreathed handrail. The hall floor is made of pammet bricks, while other features and known ceiling beams are currently plastered over. The roof structure consists of side purlin ridge boards, although the roof over the front of the crosswing was not visible during the last survey. The site was originally moated.