The Gatehouse website record for Brougham Hall

In the civil parish of Brougham. In the historic county of Westmorland (Modern Authority of Cumbria, 1974 county of Cumbria).

Defensible site of C13-C16 Hall, largely rebuilt in C19, with C17 outbuildings. Was in ruins but being restored. It is said that a licence to crenellate granted to Ricardus de Brun probably refers to the Hall rather than the Clifford held Castle; however I can only assume this supposed licence must be the 1307 licence for Drombogh, I can not get an association between de Brun and Brougham, although a James Browne sold the hall in the C17. Few remains of medieval fortifications. Curwen suggested the medieval gateway might be a C17 rebuilding of a gateway from Brougham castle. This was an important Victorian house (one of several 'Windsors of the North') and clearly a site that has been restored to look fortified, and some 'history' of the site may be invented. The surviving bits of in situ work do not look defensive but this far north it is probably the curtain wall is original (even if it's crenellations are not).

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NY527283

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 12090
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is 2870 'grey' literature, such as watching brief reports, held by H.E.R.s is often poorly referenced and is unlikely to be recorded in this website.

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