# Brough Hall
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{{Short description|Historic country house in Brough with St Giles, North Yorkshire, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2024}}
{{Use British English|date=April 2024}}
thumb|right|The hall, in 2021
'''Brough Hall''' is a historic country house in [Brough with St Giles](/source/Brough_with_St_Giles), a village in [North Yorkshire](/source/North_Yorkshire), in England.
The hall was originally constructed by the De Burgh family in the 15th century as a tower house. It passed to the [Lawson family](/source/Lawson_baronets) in 1575, and they soon added wings to the house. It was further altered and extended in the early 17th century, in about 1730, and about 1770;[{{cite book |title=A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 1 |date=1914 |publisher=Victoria County History |location=London |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/yorks/north/vol1/pp301-313 |access-date=19 April 2024}}][{{NHLE |desc=Brough Hall |num=1318301 |access-date=19 April 2024}}] the appearance of the front and sides of the building is now of an 18th-century structure.[{{cite news |last1=Stangroom |first1=Lydia |title=An exquisite three-bed house set within the walls of a Grade I historic Country Mansion in North Yorkshire |url=https://www.countrylife.co.uk/property/an-exquisite-three-bed-house-set-within-the-walls-of-a-grade-i-historic-country-mansion-in-north-yorkshire-243196 |access-date=19 April 2024 |work=Country Life |date=26 May 2022}}] The building was again altered in the mid-19th century.[{{cite book| last1 =Grenville| first1 =Jane| last2 = Pevsner | first2 = Nikolaus | author2-link = Nikolaus Pevsner | series= The Buildings of England| title =Yorkshire: The North Riding| publisher =[Yale University Press](/source/Yale_University_Press) | year =2023 | orig-year=1966 |location =New Haven and London | isbn =978-0-300-25903-2 }}]
Inside, the ground floor of the central block is a hall with 16th-century oak panelling and plasterwork, including an ornate ceiling with small pendants. On the first floor, two small rooms have been combined but retain 16th-century decorative plaster ceilings, while the great chamber (now sub-divided) has fine 18th-century features including a timber cornice (including dentil and egg & dart designs); six-panelled doors with egg & dart mouldings; door architraves with crossetted corners and fine decorative carved timberwork around the two front windows including reeded columns. There is also a priest-hole on this level. The second floor has fragments of plaster wall friezes and small areas of oak panelling, both similar to those found in the hall. The staircase tower has a grand oak staircase with carved balusters in a local 'York' style, dating from about 1730. The staircase also has a fine decorative plaster ceiling/cornice, Greek Key dado rail and fine carved wood surrounds to the rear Venetian Window and pediment over the door to the great chamber. The east block has a late-18th-century cantilevered stone staircase, and two stone fireplaces of similar date. The chapel wing has extensive 18th-century woodwork. In the west wing, on the ground floor, are an 18th-century fireplace, plasterwork, and cantilevered stone staircase.[YH/5339.270/45P 25 November 1975] The Developer, Yuill (York) Limited, saved the Hall from partial destruction by converting it into ten self-contained houses and apartments in the 1980s.
[St Paulinus' Church](/source/St_Paulinus'_Church%2C_Brough), a Catholic chapel, lies in the grounds of the hall.