Broughton Place is a historic house in the village of Broughton, Scottish Borders. It was designed by

Basil Spence Sir Basil Urwin Spence, (13 August 1907 – 19 November 1976) was a Scottish architect, most notably associated with Coventry Cathedral in England and the Beehive in New Zealand, but also responsible for numerous other buildings in the Moderni ...

in the style of a 17th-century

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History

In 1935, professor Thomas Renton Elliott Gazetteer for Scotland
Prof. Thomas Renton Elliott
and his wife commissioned the

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architectural practice of

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& Partners to build the house. It was designed by the young and still unknown Basil Spence, then a partner in the firm, in a style far removed from his later

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. He worked closely with Mrs Elliott to meet her requirements. Work began in 1936 and was completed in 1938. The house is brick-built and

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ed, with wooden panelling and decorative plaster ceilings in the interior. The sculptor Hew Lorimer contributed a pair of relief panels and a pair of lion gateposts. Broughton Place is situated on the site of an earlier house owned by

John Murray of Broughton Sir John Murray of Broughton, 7th Baronet of Stanhope (c. 1715 – 6 December 1777), also known as Murray of Broughton, was a Scottish baronet, who served as Jacobite Secretary of State during the 1745 Rising. As such, he was responsible for ...

, secretary to Bonnie Prince Charlie during the

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Current use

The house was converted into flats in 1975. Until 2010, the ground floor housed a

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, the ''Broughton Gallery'', established in 1976, offering contemporary British art and crafts.

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History

Current use

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