Standing Building Recording

Date 1998

Event ID 1180204

Category Recording

Type Standing Building Recording

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NX 6815 5105 Prior to its extensive refurbishment, an archaeological record was made of Broughton House and garden, Kirkcudbright.

EXTERNAL REFERENCE

The site comprises two separate houses (Nos 10 and 12 High Street), linked internally, but formerly separate buildings. No. 12, the main structure, is built on the site of an earlier building, the wall and barrel-vaulted cellars of which survive beneath the present forecourt on the High Street frontage. The main house features a large added bow in its rear wall, with corresponding grand rooms on the interior, and a large stair was added during the same period.

The house was occupied by Edward Atkinson Hornel, the Scottish Colourist artist (one of the Glasgow Boys) until his death in the 1930s. Hornel made extensive alterations to the house, adding a studio and gallery in the early years of the 20th century. He also made changes to the gardens, in particular by the addition of a small Japanese garden at the rear of No. 12.

The survey aimed to elucidate the relative periodisation of the building. Extensive documentary and architectural sources aided immeasurably the interpretation of the buildings, with original architects? plans surviving from the Hornel period. Using the evidence represented by the buildings themselves, together with documentary evidence, eight periods of development were defined, from the early 18th century to post-1911.

A full report and archive will be lodged with the NMRS.

Sponsor: National Trust for Scotland

A Dunn 1998.