Archaeology Notes

Event ID 709596

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT13NW 15 11691 37236

(NT 1169 3722) Broughton House (NR) (site of)

OS 6" map, (Peeblesshire), 2nd ed., (1911).

Nothing now remains of Broughton House, formerly called Little Hope. Some small cottages in the area are said to have been outhouses (Name Book 1857). Its site is now occupied by the present mansion of

Broughton Place.

RCAHMS 1967, visited 1958.

Broughton House, once the residence of Secretary Murray, was burnt in 1773.

W Grant 1948.

Broughton Place, built in 1937, stands on the site of Broughton House.

Visited by OS(EGC) 8 June 1964.