Broughton House

Broughton House is a house built in the early 19th century for James Sutton, a merchant who played a role in developing Shardlow as an inland port. The building features fine ashlar stonework and red brick on the rear elevation, with stone dressings and a wide plain stone band separating the basement from the ground floor. It has a hipped slate roof, ashlar side wall stacks, and a moulded eaves cornice with a blocking course above.

The house is two storeys tall with a basement and consists of three bays. At the center, there is a flight of eight semi-circular stone steps leading up to a semi-circular Tuscan porch, which is flanked by basement glazing bar sash windows. The porch has a plain entablature with a blocking course and a lattice work iron balcony above. Below the porch, there is a plain doorcase with double glazed doors. On either side of the porch, there are shallow segment-headed recesses with radiating voussoirs, containing glazing bar sashes with narrow sill bands. Above, there are three glazing bar sashes, with the central one extending to full height. The rear elevation features glazing bar sashes set beneath rusticated wedge lintels.

Inside, the house boasts a cantilevered limestone open well staircase with iron balusters and a wreathed handrail. All rooms retain original plaster cornices and reeded doorcases, and two rooms also feature their original reeded timber fireplaces.