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Photographic survey of Broughton Hall, Worthenbury, undertaken by George Bernard Mason as part of the National Buildings Record in 1956.
Photographic survey of Broughton Hall, Worthenbury, undertaken by George Bernard Mason as part of the National Buildings Record in 1956.
Broughton Hall was an early-seventeenth century timber-framed house, which was more or less square in plan. It was much-altered during the nineteenth century when, for instance, two large bay windows, each of two storeys, were constructed using earlier timbers. A large entrance porch was also added in 1852, apparently using some old carved motifs and repeating and matching the timberwork of the older parts of the building.
As regards the interior, the staircase, which featured a running vine-scroll and heraldic beasts, was of good quality and contemporary with the house. With the exception of the staircase, however, most of the interior features (including the chimneypieces and friezes in the two southern rooms) appear to have been inserted during the Victorian period.
Broughton Hall was demolished in 1959.
