Description

BRAMLEY LIDGET LANE
SK49SE
(south side, off)
2/28
Bramley Grange and
Bramley Grange Farmhouse
(formerly listed as
Bramley Grange,
Bramley Grange Farmhouse)
II
House and attached farmhouse. C16 core encased C17 and refronted c1700, C18
wing. Fragmentary timber-framed core, coursed, squared sandstone, Welsh
slate roofs. 2-storey, 5 x 2-bay house with attached range to rear extended
as 3-storey, 3-bay projection beyond left return. Main range (Bramley
Grange): chamfered plinth, large quoins. Central door in bolection-moulded
surround with keystone having carved rosette, consoled segmental pediment.
Flanking C20 casements with glazing bars, projecting sills and architraves
(those to bays 4 and 5 cemented); dripmould cut back. 1st floor: central
window in rusticated, shouldered and eared architrave. Continuous hoodmould
over flanking windows as those on ground floor. Coped parapet rising to a
small central false gable with finial. Hipped roof. Bramley Grange
Farmhouse set back to left: horizontally-tooled wallstone. Large quoins to
left. Part-glazed door in ashlar surround flanked on right by C20 bay
projection and on left by curved bay window. 1st floor: 16-pane sashes in
square-faced surrounds, small window to far right. 3 blind 2nd-floor
windows. Shaped kneelers, gable copings and rendered end stack on left
having round-headed bellcote to rear; 2 rendered ridge stacks.
Right return: (Bramley Grange): 2 blacked double-chamfered cross windows on
each floor, dripmoulds. End of rear range set back on right (C20 block in
angle not of special interest): blocked double chamfered 2-light window in
plinth, transomed single-light window to lst-floor, enlarged window over.
Interior of Bramley Grange; much-restored plasterwork in front-left room
having bolection-moulded fireplace with overmantel panel, voluted pilasters
to ribs of 6-panel ceiling, Front-right room has 3-high oak panels with
frieze of grapes and foliage; square-headed ashlar fireplace with replica
datestone inscribed 'W 1637 S', 1st floor: C18 panelling with bolection-
moulded architraves to fielded panels in front-right room. Front-left room
has excellent early C17 plaster overmantel with 3 figures, 1 with mallet and
sickle, another with bird, the third with infant, panels with masks between
the figures. Bramley Grange Farfihausei ground-floor room on left has exposed
datestone inscribed 'ES/1716' within a shield. Site of grange to Roche Abbey
which passed to the Spencer family after the Dissolution. Details of
fragmentary framing in rear range recorded in: South Yorkshire County Ancient
Monuments and Sites Record, Primary index No 196.

Listing NGR: SK4915692797

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26487331

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