Bramhall Hall, Stockport

This is Bramhall Hall near Stockport.
It is a regular stroll for us walking the dog early evening.

It is a black and white timber framed building that was originally a manor house. The frame is made of oak timbers, joined together using mortice 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 and he gave both parts of the Bramall land to one of his followers, Hamon de Masci, the first Baron of Dunham Massey.

During the next 800 years just three families would own the estate: the Davenports, De Bromales and Nevills.