Broughton House
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| Grid reference: | NX682510 |
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| Website: | Broughton House and Garden |
Broughton House is a Georgian house in the heart of Kirkcudbright in Kirkcudbrightshire.
The house was the home of the artist Edward Atkinson Hornel, whose family moved from Australia to Kirkcudbright in 1866. He bought Broughton House in 1901, and become in its time centre of an artists’ colony in a most delightful setting. Hornel was one of the "Glasgow Boys" and his 18th-century home, but a step from the Solway Firth, drew friends and admirers.
Painstakingly preserved and recreated, the house is a living museum of Hornel’s life and work, packed to the rafters with his paintings and those of his contemporaries, as well as his vast library, which includes one of the world’s biggest collections of works by Robert Burns.
Behind the house is its secret; a beautiful garden planted by Hornel and in form influenced by his love of Japan, where he lived for a year and a half gaining artistic inspiration. The result is a surprising mixture of east and west, but a bright and colourful fusion at that.
The house and garden are owned by the National Trust for Scotland.
