Brompton Hall School

Brompton Hall School is a country house dating from the mid-18th century, with earlier origins and alterations in the early 19th century and 20th centuries, including extensions to the side and rear. Originally built for the Cayley family. The building is constructed of sandstone ashlar on a dressed sandstone plinth, with raised and chamfered quoins.

The entrance front is three storeys high, with a four-window arrangement. C20 glazed doors are set within a Tuscan portico on the ground floor to the right. Single-pane sash windows are set into plain raised surrounds with key blocks throughout, and raised bands delineate the first and second floors. The garden front is also three storeys high, with a seven-bay arrangement, the centre three bays projecting and flanked by a later C20, four-bay extension. What was probably the original entrance, situated in the centre, has been altered to contain a three-window square bay, flanked by tall single pane sashes. The remaining windows are single-pane sashes in plain raised surrounds with key blocks and raised bands to the first and second floors. A projecting eaves cornice is topped with a low parapet. Chimney stacks are situated at the ends and to the centre left and right. The roof itself is not visible.

The interior ground floor includes a room to the left, where reeded door architraves with paterae and eight-panel window shutters remain, along with a screen of fluted Corinthian columns in antis to the rear, complete with a full entablature. A moulded cornice runs around the entire room. In the centre room, two of three recessed and moulded ceiling panels and a moulded cornice survive. To the right, reeded door architraves with paterae, eight-panel window shutters, a plaster cornice, and corner mouldings to the ceiling are present. The staircase hall features a carved stone fireplace with herm jambs and an integral overmantel painting within a broken-pedimented architrave. An open-string straight staircase has a wrought-iron balustrade, along with a moulded dado rail and wall panels, pulvinated friezes and cornices over doors, and a moulded cornice. A screen of Ionic columns with a balustrade at the head of the stair also exists, as does a series of tunnel-vaulted arches with enriched panels leading off to either side. In the rear passage, towards the left end, a remaining 2-centred arch indicates an earlier building phase; it features a broach-stopped right jamb on a tall pedestal with moulded stops. On the first floor, a screen of Ionic columns with a balustrade sits at the head of the stair.