Brough Hall

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Brough Hall is a historic country house in Brough with St Giles, a village in North Yorkshire, in England.

The hall was originally constructed by the De Burgh family in the 15th century as a tower house. It passed to the Lawson family in 1575, and they soon added wings to the house. It was further altered and extended in the early 17th century, in about 1730, and about 1770; [1] [2] the appearance of the building is now of an 18th century structure. [3] The building was again altered in the mid-19th century. [2] It was grade I listed in 1951, [2] and in 1979 it was sold by the Lawsons and was divided into apartments. [3]

The building is constructed of sandstone, partly roughcast, with Westmorland slate roofs. In the centre is the tower house with three storeys and three bays, the 16th-century outer bays slightly projecting and gabled, flanked by 18th-century two-storey bays, and with a rear stair tower. On each side of these are two-storey five-bay blocks, the east block with a chapel wing. In the centre of the main block is a Doric portico and a doorway in an architrave, above which is a Venetian window with voussoirs in a round-arched recess. The other windows in the block are round-arched sashes in architraves, and above them is a modillion cornice and gable pediments, and a parapet with moulded coping. At the rear are quoins, blocked mullioned and transomed windows, and a doorway with a quoined chamfered surround and a triangular head. In the stair tower is a Tuscan Venetian window with a pediment on a balustraded dado, and a Diocletian window. [2] [4]

Inside, the ground floor of the central block is a hall with 16th-century panelling and plasterwork, including a ceiling with small pendants. On the first floor, two small rooms have been combined but retain 16th-century ceilings, while the great chamber has 18th-century panelling. The second floor has fragments of panelling matching that in the hall. The staircase tower has a grand oak staircase, dating from about 1730. The east block has a late-18th century cantilevered stone staircase, and two stone fireplaces of similar date. The chapel wing has extensive 18th-century woodwork. In the west wing, on the ground floor, are an 18th-century fireplace, plasterwork, and cantilevered stone staircase. [2]

St Paulinus' Church, a Catholic chapel, lies in the grounds of the hall. [1]

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References

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