Broughton Place, Peeblesshire
| Broughton Place | |
| Peeblesshire | |
|---|---|
 Broughton Place | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NT116372 |
| Location: | 55°37’14"N, 3°24’18"W |
| History | |
| Built 1936 - 1938 | |
| For: | Prof Elliott by Basil Spence |
| Country house | |
| Scots baronial revival | |
| Information | |
| Condition: | Converted to flats |
Broughton Place is a twentieth century country house standing alone above the valley of the Broughton Burn, to the north-east of Broughton, in Peeblesshire.
The house stands on the site of an earlier house, Broughton House, also known as "Little Hope". Broughton House had been the seat of Sir John Murray of Broughton, who had been the secretary to Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, during the 1745 rebellion, but who later turned King's evidence to save his neck. Murray's house and estate was forfeit in 1746 and sold. It burnt to the ground in 1773 or 1775.
The historical connection drew Professor and Mrs Elliott to purchase the site to build their new house. They had spent their honeymoon locally in 1919.[1] Elliott commissioned Rowand Anderson, Paul and Partners to build a house in the Scots baronial style, to suit Mrs Elliott's desire for a romantic house. The new house was built between 1936 and 1938. It was built in brick, due to cost restraints, but harled in stone so that the house has the appearance of a stone-built mansion.
The interior is treated in the spirit of the exterior, with wood panelling and decorative plaster ceilings. The sculptor Hew Lorimer was commissioned to create a pair of relief panels and a pair of lion gateposts.
After the house was sold in the 1970s, it was converted into flats, and an art gallery operated on the ground floor for several years.