Bramall Hall
Ancient manor valued at 5 shillings by 1086.
Bramhall Park, Bramhall, Stockport, Cheshire, SK7 3NX
Bramall Hall is a superb example of a Tudor Manor House with origins dating back to the Middle Ages.
The Hall, one of the most beautiful treasures of England, is of great national importance. The magnificent 16th Century wall paintings, striking Elizabethan plaster ceiling, the Victorian Kitchens and Servants’ Quarters give this Hall its unique charm.
The Hall offers unique insights into the families and servants who lived and worked here. It stands in about 70 acres of parkland designed in the Victorian Romantic style. It offers woodland walks with intriguing glimpses of the Hall itself and of the brooks and lakes.
Bramall Hall is one of Cheshire’s grandest black and white timber-framed buildings. It is a manor house built in the traditional local style.
The framework of the Hall is constructed with oak timbers, joined together using mortise and tenon joints and held in place with oak pegs. Wattle and daub (interlaced twigs crudely coated with clay) or lath (thin narrow strops of wood) and plaster were used to fill the spaces between the timbers.
Before the Norman Conquest in 1066, Bramall was held as two separate manors, owned by two Saxon freemen Brun and Hacun. Around 1070 William the Conqueror subdued the North of England. He gave both parts of the Bramall land to Hamon de Masci, the first Baron of Dunham Massey.
During the next 800 years just three families would own the estate;
The de Bromales
The de Davenports (who succeeded the de Bromales by marriage anyway)
The Nevills who were the first owners to purchase the estate.