Listed Building: BRAMPTON MANOR, ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS AND RAILINGS (1319629)

House. Late C16, with C17 additions, external remodelling c1808, and further C19 and C20 alterations. Rendered Coal Measures Sandstone with ashlar dressings, coped gables, ashlar ridge stacks, and 2 smaller brick stacks, one to the gable, one at ridge level. Stone slated roofs. Double gabled range, with lower ealier 2-storey range to west set at right angles to the main house. North elevation. 2 storeys and attics, 2 bays, west gable with 5-light chamfered mullioned and transomed windows to ground and first floors, and 2-light recessed chamfered mullioned window to attic. East gable with 4 x 4 pane glazing bar sash windows in flush stone frames, with lightly moulded lintels to ground and first floors. 2-light recessed chamfered mullioned window to attic. Off-centre doorway with restored C19 surround and C20 glazed door enclosed by C19 porch with Tuscan columns, architrave, frieze and cornice. Rear elevation to main range with 2, 3 and 4-light chamfered miullioned windows and 4 x 4 pane glazing bar sashes. East elevation with stacked 4 x 4 pane glazing bar sashes, the ground-floor openings with wedge lintels, the upper floor heads obscured by a projecting timber eaves cornice. 2-storey range with mullioned and transomed window with casements to north elevation. Rear elevation with inserted C20 gabled dormers, windows and door frames. INTERIOR: Main range. 2 ground-floor rooms, and one first-floor chamber, contain C17 decorative plasterwork: the front room to the east gabled range has a decorated ceiling with circular patterning to one half, and diamond and square patterning to the other half, all within moulded cornices and spine beams. The rear room to this range has a plasterwork overmantel, with interlaced strapwork based on a knot garden pattern. The principal first-floor chamber, now subdivided, has a 12-panel ceiling, with moulded beams having decorative pendants and floral motifs at the intersections. C17 square panelling to a smaller first-floor chamber. Attics with exposed tie-beam trusses carrying a single purlin roof, with curved windbraces. Ridge purlin notched into heads of principal rafters, and diagonally set. One truss is closed, with infilled stud partitioning. Moulded stone hearths to ground-floor rooms containing plasterwork and a massive hearth, now altered, to the present kitchen, which also contains substantial spine beams. Lower western range has 2 cruck trusses, supporting a single purlin roof, with a table yoke carrying a flat-set ridge purlin. Low boundary stone wall to front elevation, with a deeply chamfered ashlar coping surmounted by C19 decorative cast-iron railings with intersecting heads. Square gatepiers to central gateway with rounded pyramidal caps and matching cast-iron gates. Tall rubble boundary wall to west side with taller crenellated part above a semicircular headed gateway. Listing NGR: SK3358871855