Interior, view of lower ground floor vaulted wine cellar under entrance court

Description Interior, view of lower ground floor vaulted wine cellar under entrance court

Date 6/11/2002

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number E 30953

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 801552

Scope and Content Wine Cellar, Broughton House, Nos 10-12 High Street, Kirkcudbright, Dumfries & Galloway This photograph, taken in 2002, shows the vaulted wine cellar in the lower ground floor of the house. It runs under the courtyard to the front of the house, on Kirkcudbright High Street, and may be part of the earlier house. There is space for the storage of many bottles of wine, which would have been kept at a constant, cool temperature in the cellar. In 1895, Broughton House was purchased by the artist Edward Atkinson Hornel (1864-1933), who lived there until his death. The house is now in the care of The National Trust for Scotland as a museum and art gallery, fulfilling Hornel's wish that his house, library and garden be made available to local people. Broughton House was built in the mid-18th century as a town house for the Murrays of Broughton. As the house was built on the site of another house, it is thought that fragments of the earlier structure may remain within some of the basement rooms. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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