Listed Building record MDR5334 - Old Hall Cottage, Main Road, Brampton

Old Hall Cottage, Main Road, Brampton, an early 17th century building. 'Cutthorpe Old Hall consists of the Old Manor House, with the main rooms in three storeys above each other and the staircase in an attached wing, and Old Hall Cottages, the two-storey, two-bay wing to the left. It was built by Ralph Clarke, first Mayor of Chesterfield, d. 1660.' (1) 'Cutthorpe Old Hall is an impressive Jacobean house built in 1625 for Alderman Ralph Clarke of Chesterfield. Essentially a variant of the tower house, but in rather a vernacular vein, it consists of a main range of three storeys and attics containing the main rooms, one above the other, with low mullioned windows. Hood moulds extend into string courses on each floor, quoins and straight coped gables on each side, the whole reached through an attached staircase. The entrance is in the angle, and on the other side of the main block there is a wing of two storeys which boasts a small gable where it meets the main part of the house. The house may once have been larger, for Cornelius Clark, the nephew of the builder, paid tax on 12 hearths in 1670. At some point it seems to have come to the Sitwells of Renishaw, who probably reduced it, adapting it as a farm. From 1752 it was tenanted, at first only the low wing, by the Botham family who farmed the small estate, but who took the whole house over in the 19th century and purchased it from the Sitwells in 1910. The last of the family died in 1982.' (2, 3) From the National Heritage List for England: 'BRAMPTON SK37SW MAIN ROAD 1264-0/2/109 (North side) 31/01/67 Old Hall Cottage (Formerly Listed as: CUTTHORPE Cutthorpe Old Hall, Old Hall Cottage, Old Manor House) GV II Cottage, formerly 2-storey wing of the attached Old Hall (qv) Early C17, with C19 alterations, extended and remodelled in 1986. Coursed rubble Coal Measures Sandstone, with ashlar dressings, quoins, coped gable to west end, one ashlar and one brick chimney to ridge, and a stone-slated roof. 2 storeys. Five bays, that to the east end gabled, and forming part of the attached Old Hall. South elevation has remodelled central doorway with plain lintel and C20 boarded door. Flanking 2-light chamfered mullioned window to east, beneath drip mould, with two shallow two-light chamfered mullioned openings, and a single-light opening above, all C17. Gabled end bay with ground-floor doorway and 2-light chamfered mullioned window with drip mould above. To the west of the central door is a C20 two-light window, and, above, a C17 two-light chamfered mullioned window. All windows with C20 leaded lights. Rear elevation remodelled and extended. INTERIOR: completely remodelled. Listing NGR: SK3422773379.' (4)