Broughton Place is a historic house in the village of Broughton, Scottish Borders. It was designed by

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in the style of a 17th-century

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History

In 1935, professor

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Prof. Thomas Renton Elliott
and his wife commissioned the

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architectural practice of Rowand Anderson,

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& Partners to build the house. It was designed by the young and still unknown Basil Spence, then a partner in the firm, in a style far removed from his later

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. He worked closely with Mrs Elliott to meet her requirements. Work began in 1936 and was completed in 1938. The house is brick-built and

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ed, with wooden panelling and decorative plaster ceilings in the interior. The sculptor Hew Lorimer contributed a pair of relief panels and a pair of lion gateposts. Broughton Place is situated on the site of an earlier house owned by John Murray of Broughton, secretary to

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during the

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Current use

The house was converted into flats in 1975. Until 2010, the ground floor housed a commercial art gallery, the ''Broughton Gallery'', established in 1976, offering contemporary British art and

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