School house and attached school room at Brampton Ellis Junior School
School house and attached school room at Brampton Ellis Junior School, Brampton Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192494
- Date first listed:
- 21-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- School house and attached school room at Brampton Ellis Junior School
- Statutory Address:
- School house and attached school room at Brampton Ellis Junior School, Brampton Road
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/14776/19
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192494
- Date first listed:
- 21-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- School house and attached school room at Brampton Ellis Junior School
- Statutory Address 1:
- School house and attached school room at Brampton Ellis Junior School, Brampton Road
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- School house and attached school room at Brampton Ellis Junior School, Brampton Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 41775 01138
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 4 January 2022 to update text and reformat to current standards
SE40SW
2/39
SOUTH YORKSHIRE
ROTHERHAM
WATH UPON DEARNE
BRAMPTON ROAD (north side)
School-house and attached school-room at Brampton Ellis Junior School
II
House with attached school-room. House probably mid C18, altered and school-room rebuilt 1791; later alterations. Coursed, squared sandstone; tile and Welsh slate roofs. three-storey, three-bay house with continuous outshut to rear; two-bay single-storey school-room to left, set back.
House: plinth, large quoins. Central doorway with C20 door in stone surround; added wood surround with pediment. Flanking sashes with margin lights in square-faced surrounds with projecting sills. Three similar windows to first floor. Three shorter windows to second floor have casements with glazing bars. Gable copings; renewed brick end stacks.
Schoolroom: central door in square-faced surround, now window. Flanking two-light windows: renewed casements in tall square-faced surrounds with stone mullions. Inscribed plaque over door; sundial with decorative iron gnomon over. Hipped roof to left, ridge ventilator.
Inscription on plaque reads:
This Charity-School and House were rebuilt
in the Year 1791
by the Order of the Right Honle Earl Fitzwilliam
The Very Revd. John Fountayne DD
Rowland Hodgson Rector of Rawmarsh
t Andrew Warde, William Oates, Francis Edmunds
and Thomas Hewett Esqrs.
TRUSTEES for this CHARITY
George Ellis (1627-1712) of Brampton Hall, Brampton Bierlow bequeathed a sum of money to establish this and other local schools in his will of 1711. The school, as rebuilt in 1791, was to cater for twenty children in the single school-room.
Additions to rear and left return not of special interest.
Reproduction of the will of George Ellis in possession of the headmaster.
Listing NGR: SE4177501138
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335548
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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