Broughton House

SK 44 30 PARISH OF SHARDLOW AND GREAT WILNE LONDON ROAD 7/203 (North Side) 10.11.67 Broughton House No 141 GV II House. Early C19, built for James Sutton, one of the merchants who developed Shardlow as an inland port. Fine ashlar, and red brick to rear elevation, with stone dressings, plus wide plain stone band between basement and ground floor. Hipped slate roof with ashlar side wall stacks and moulded eaves cornice with blocking course over. Two storeys plus basement and three bays. To the centre there is a flight of eight semi-circular stone steps with moulded nosings, rising up to a semi-circular Tuscan porch, flanked by basement glazing bar sashes. The porch has a plain entablature with blocking course and lattice work iron balcony over. Below there is a plain doorcase with double glazed doors. To either side there are shallow segment headed recesses with radiating voussoirs and within there are glazing bar sashes with narrow sill bands. Above there are three glazing bar sashes, that to centre, full height. Rear elevation has glazing bar sashes below rusticated wedge lintels. Interior has a cantilevered limestone open well staircase with iron balusters and wreathed handrail. All rooms have original plaster cornices and reeded doorcases, two rooms also have their original reeded timber fireplaces.

Listing NGR: SK4433030281