Broughton Hall

The hall is a Grade I listed building and has been the seat of the Tempest Baronets for 900 years and, although the baronetcy is extinct, the estate is still run by a direct descendant of the Tempest family. A 14th-century document records the acquisition of a house, watermill and part of the manor of Broughton by Sir John Tempest. The oldest parts of the current building date to 1597, and it was altered in 1755. The pedimented end wings were added to the main structure for Stephen Tempest, 1809 11, to designs by William Atkinson. Sir Charles Tempest, Bt. (1794–1865) refaced the north front in golden Kendal stone and added a portico, 1838 41, to designs by George Webster, an architect of…

The house is built of stone with roofs of lead and slate. The main block has two storeys, a basement and attics, and seven bays, flanked by two-story projecting wings. In the centre is a porte-cochère with two pairs of Greek Ionic columns and a balustrade, and a doorway with a pediment on consoles. The windows are sashes, those in the ground floor and attic with cornices, and the attic is balustraded. The wings have Ionic half-columns and pediments. To the west is a service wing with two storeys, ending in a square four-stage tower surmounted by an octagonal cupola. At the rear is the conservatory, with Ionic columns outside and cast iron columns within, and a simple five-bay chapel. The…