Bridge, gatepiers and boundary walls, Broxmouth Park

This is a large, classical-style mansion, likely dating from around 1775, possibly incorporating earlier fabric. It was probably designed by James Nisbet. The house is built on falling ground to the north, with a raised basement on that side. The exterior is largely harled, with dressings in grey and red sandstone ashlar. A band course runs along the ground floor level, topped by a moulded cornice and an ashlar parapet.

The south (front) elevation is two storeys high, featuring a slightly projecting, pedimented bay at the centre, with raised quoins. The central doorway is tripartite, with a panelled two-leaf door and a decorative fanlight. A single-storey, Roman Doric columned portico was likely added later. A tripartite window is set above the door, and three bays flank each side, with tall windows on the ground floor and smaller windows above.

The west elevation features a bowed, full-height bay, probably added later, constructed in ashlar. It incorporates French windows at ground and basement levels, and is adjoined by a decorative late 19th-century wrought-iron balcony with a ram’s horn stair. Two bays flank the central bay, each containing windows on both floors.

The east elevation has six bays to the main house, with regular windows at basement, ground, and first floor levels. A two-bay recessed addition is present at the north end, and a curtain wall marks the remains of a former three-storey, seven-bay gabled extension which was demolished after 1955. Later additions include garage doorways inserted into the basement and two recessed bays.

The north (courtyard) elevation was formerly enclosed by a coped rubble wall. A full-height rectangular stair projection is set in the re-entrant angle formed by the west wing, featuring a small oculus and tall stair windows. A wide doorway is at ground level, with regularly windowed bays extending to the remaining elevations. A doorway is located to the right of the recessed two-bay eastern extension, with a harled lean-to garage built on the site of the demolished extension. The windows are sash and case with small panes. The roofs are piended and covered in grey slates, with ashlar ridge tiles and coped red sandstone ashlar ridge stacks.

Cast-iron arrowhead and urn finialled railings are found by the basement area, flanking the south elevation to the east and west. Decorative lamp standards, dated 1902, are situated along the drive.

The interior retains fine chimneypieces dating from the original period and the mid-19th century.

The red rubble sandstone boundary walls enclose the policies, deer park, and farming boundaries of Broxmouth, bordering a golf links. Several gateways are present, each with rusticated ashlar piers and moulded coping. The deer park was landscaped in 1845. A sandstone bridge, with a roughly three-metre wide arched span, is located near the golf links, incorporating the boundary wall as a parapet on the links side.