Broughton Hall is a Gothic house at Yew Tree Lane West Derby

West Derby

West Derby is a suburb in the north of Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is also a Liverpool City Council ward. At the 2001 Census, the population of the ward was 14,801 .-History:...

, Liverpool

Liverpool

Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

, built in 1860 for Gustavus C. Schaube, a Liverpool merchant originating from Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

. The conservatory

Conservatory (greenhouse)

A conservatory is a room having glass roof and walls, typically attached to a house on only one side, used as a greenhouse or a sunroom...

added between 1870 and 1880 is of special interest.

The house was used as a preparatory school run by Roman Catholic nuns but now Broughton Hall is an all girls Roman Catholic comprehensive school with boys in the sixth form.

External links

• Broughton Hall High School Technology College
• Morton, B. (1995), "Supporting Columns: Restoring a Cast Iron Conservatory", Context 48 (December 1995), Institute of Historic Building Conservation, accessed 21 November 2007.