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

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