Brompton Hall School

SE 9380 BROMPTON-BY-SAWDON HIGH STREET (south side)

13/17 Brompton Hall School (formerly listed as The 13.12.51 Hall)

GV II

Country house, now school. Mid C18 with earlier origins, and early C19 and C20 alterations and extensions to side and rear. For the Cayley family. Sandstone ashlar on dressed sandstone plinth with raised and chamfered quoins. Entrance front: 3-storey, 4-window front. C20 glazed doors inserted to ground floor right beneath Tuscan portico. Sashes in plain raised surrounds with key blocks throughout. Raised bands to first and second floors. Garden front: 3-storey, 7-bay front, arranged 2:3:2, the quoined centre bays projecting; C20 3-storey, 4-bay extension to left. ProbabIe original entrance to centre altered to contain a 3-window square bay flanked by tall single-pane sashes. Remaining windows are single-pane sashes in plain raised surrounds with keyblocks. Raised bands to first and second floors. Projecting eaves cornice with low parapet above. End and left and right of centre stacks. Roof not visible. Interior. Ground floor: room to left - reeded door architraves with paterae and 8-panel window shutters. Screen of fluted Corinthian columns in antis to rear, with full entablature. Moulded cornice extends round entire room. Centre room - 2 of 3 recessed and moulded ceiling panels survive, together with a moulded cornice. Room to right - reeded door architraves with paterae and 8-panel window shutters. Plaster cornice and corner mouldings to ceiling. Staircase hall - carved stone fireplace with herm jambs and integral overmantel painting intact in broken-pedimented architrave. Open-string straight staircase with wrought-iron balustrade. Moulded dado rail and wall panels. Pulvinated friezes and cornices over doors. Moulded cornice. Tunnel-vaulted arches with enriched panels lead off to left and right. Rear passage - at the left end a 2-centred arch survives from an earlier building with a broach-stopped right jamb on a tall pedestal with moulded stops. First floor: a screen of Ionic columns with balustrade at the head of the stair.

Listing NGR: SE9426682220