Listed Building record MDR5321 - Pratt Hall, B6050, Brampton

Pratt Hall, B6050, Brampton, an early 17th century building. 'Pratt Hall is a rambling complex, the eastern part apparently 17th century, the western part with doors dated 1700, 1703 and 1704. There are plain stone mullions and oval recesses with hood moulds in the gables.' (1) Vernacular building with sections dated to 1700, 1703 and 1704, as indicated by inscribed door lintels. (2, 3) From the National Heritage List for England: 'SK37SW 1264-0/2/111 31/01/67 BRAMPTON PRATTHALL Pratt Hall and attached outbuildings (Formerly Listed as: CUTTHORPE Pratt Hall) GV II House. Early C17, substantially remodelled c1700, and with C19 and C20 alterations. Coursed rubble Coal Measures Sandstone with gritstone dressings to C17 part, sandstone dressings to C18 part, quoins, coped gables with moulded kneelers, and rendered gable stacks. Concrete tiled and stone slated roof. L-plan house, with attached outbuilding to north-west end of south-west elevation. 2 storeys and 3 bays, with massive lintel and quoined surround to doorway at north-west end. To the north-west a C20 two-light casement window. To the south-east, a single-light C18 window, a blocked doorway, and a C19 two-light casement beneath a plain head. Central 2-light chamfered mullioned window, flanked by two 3-light C18 windows, all with slightly projecting heads with a concave quadrant moulding to the front edge, giving a window head with integral drip mould. All first floor windows with plain timber casements. South-east elevation with a C18 and a C17 two-light window, the former mullioned, the latter a relocated C17 window, now with the mullion removed, beneath a drip mould. Two blocked oeil-de-boeuf windows to gable apex. Single-bay rear range with rebuilt gable wall, slightly set back from gable of front range. Ground-floor C17 five-light recessed chamfered mullioned window beneath drip mould, and a 4-light window above, of similar date. Inserted C18 single-light window to the north-east of the first floor window. North-west elevation of rear range has a blocked C18 doorway. INTERIOR: remaining bay of C17 house with beamed ceiling with pyramidal stop to spine beam chamfer, and chamfered and stopped joists: north-east end of spine beam covered with later cladding, suggesting a removed hearth. Timber studded wall to rear side wall of room, with socket for possible removed bressumer. Stud partition to first floor separating a narrow corridor from main chamber. C18 panelled doors throughout house. C18 hearth to north-west gable ground-floor wall, with massive lintel carried on jowelled jambs. Attached outbuilding on two levels, single storey to the southwest, with an offshut at a lower level to the north- east side, and an overloft at the north-west end. Stone slated roof, covered in pitch and hessian. Listing NGR: SK3273673157.' (4)