Broughton Hall

The truly magnificent, Grade I listed Broughton Hall is a phenomenal period property that is absolutely perfect for special celebrations with your family or favourite friends or corporate events. It sits on a fabulous three thousand acre estate offering ancient woodland, parkland, moorland, reservoirs, walking trails, historic formal gardens, a tennis court, swimming pool, a luxury wellbeing centre, gym and an endless list of special attractions and entertainment venues. The Broughton Hall Estate was established in 1097 and has been home to the Tempest family, one of England’s oldest Catholic landed gentry families, for over nine hundred years. With continual transformation and a mission to be a regenerative space rooted in the nature and wellbeing of humanity and the planet, the estate is now known as Broughton Sanctuary. Broughton Hall is a unique period mansion house that is rich in history and character, offers outstanding entertainment spaces and is sprinkled with lavish furnishings and opulent decor. You will definitely feel the tingle of history as you walk around. The hall boasts seventeen grand bedrooms sleeping up to thirty two guests. In addition to the hall, Broughton Sanctuary offers sixteen holiday cottages that you can also book if there is not enough space in the hall. Guests staying at Broughton Hall enjoy exceptional hospitality with a house manager and hospitality team always on hand to attend to your every whim. In house chefs can create delicious meals and upscale events.

Broughton Hall enjoys a fantastic location less than ten minutes from the popular market town of Skipton, often referred to as the gateway to the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Skipton hosts an award-winning market every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday throughout the year. It boasts the medieval Skipton Castle, a beautiful old parish church, excellent boutiques, unique shops, fabulous restaurants and charming traditional pubs. Skipton has previously been named as ‘Britain’s best place to live’ by the Sunday Times. The town is surrounded by spectacular landscapes including the iconic curved limestone cliff of Malham Cove, as seen in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Steam railways are available from Embsay and Bolton Abbey and the Leeds to Liverpool Canal passes through Skipton. The amazing cathedral City of Ripon, Harrogate, York, the breathtaking Howardian Hills, the North Yorkshire Moors National Park and the Lake District are all within easy reach.

The Tempest Family are believed to have come to England from Normandy during William Conqueror’s 1066 invasion of England and were given land in the aftermath of the invasion. Roger Tempest, the current custodian of Broughton Sanctuary is the thirty second generation of Tempests to be custodian of the sanctuary.

Broughton Hall is a lavish palace, an oasis of gracious and glorious living where you can bring the generations together in a timeless, quintessentially English retreat. This period  property with serious swagger and style offers the perfect venue for mature celebrations, for corporate events, private house parties, retreats or just a round up of loved ones to spend quality time together. The ground floor is home to superb reception rooms and an outstanding kitchen though you may decide to have your stay at Broughton Hall fully catered. These rooms include the red drawing room, the green drawing room, a library, a saloon, a formal dining room, all of which enjoy open fires for a crackling atmosphere plus a conservatory where you can enjoy breakfast with a view and access to the gardens, a billiards room with a full-size billiards table and a gallery. There are also two guest cloakrooms. The rooms are absolutely incredible, very grand and come with lavish, extravagant furnishings. Period features, luxurious fabrics, family oil paintings, plush rugs, intricate chandeliers and vintage accessories come in lavish abundance. Log fires light up the splendour of these magnificent rooms. The red drawing room enjoys a piano where you can spend time tinkling the ivories. Both main drawing rooms can be opened to provide one giant entertainment space. The very grand dining room enjoys a fabulous atmosphere for a candlelit celebration meal. Not only does the billiards room offer a professional quality table, its ceiling is incredibly detailed and a plush velvet sofa provides a good spot to watch.

Guests will sleep like kings in seventeen palatial bedrooms which are spread over the first and second floors. Many offer sensationally adorned four poster beds and most offer ensuite bathrooms. The ‘Bow’ bedroom offers a beautifully dressed super kingsize four poster with glorious garden views and an ensuite bathroom with a freestanding roll top bath and shower. The ‘Captains’ bedroom also boasts a super kingsize four poster bed, an ensuite with a shower and a freestanding roll top bath where you can soak your stresses away and double aspect garden views. The ‘Oak’ bedroom enjoys a kingsize four poster bed and a somewhat hidden ensuite with a copper bath tub. ‘Portico’, ‘Amber’ and ‘North’ offer super kingsize beds and ensuite bathrooms. Guests staying in ‘South’ have a super kingsize bed and use of ‘Gillows’ family bathroom. ‘Smiths’ offers a luxurious kingsize bed and an ensuite shower room while ‘The Old Nursery’ boasts a kingsize four poster bed and ensuite bathroom. ‘Buff’ has a small double bed, ‘Copper Beach’ has a double bed, ‘Penthouse Park’ offers twins, ‘Boudoir’ and ‘Monks’ have single beds and ‘Bow Dressing’ bedroom has a four poster bed. Guest staying in these room share the ‘Delph’ family bathroom. ‘Music’ offers twin beds and an ensuite bathroom and finally, ‘Garden’ enjoys a kingsize bed and and ensuite bathroom. ‘Bow’ and ‘Boudoir’ bedrooms can be set up as a family suite by opening an interconnecting door. With lavish, luxury linens and amazing soft furnishings, you will dive deep into some serious shut-eye.

Guests staying at Broughton Hall enjoy access to all of Broughton Sanctuary’s highly impressive amenities. The grounds are brimming with woodland, parkland, heather moorland, walking trails, meandering rivers, wild reservoirs and 18th century gardens designed by Andrew Nesfield sprinkled with statues, ponds and fountains. You can quickly get lost in the bird song and country air, listen to owls hoot and the wind whispering its way through the boughs of the oaks. A tennis court is available for some healthy competition, barbecues are available for alfresco meals, an outdoor swimming pool is perfect for a cooling swim and Avalon is a leading retreat and wellness centre that can be hired exclusively by guests of Broughton Hall for private wellbeing experiences.

Avalon is a state-of-the-art centre offering a wonderful range of bespoke classes, therapies and experiences, a beautiful, tranquil pool suite with a hydro massage pool, organic shaped sauna and steam rooms and a brilliantly well-equipped gym that all invite reconnection, restoration, relaxation and rejuvenation. Broughton Sanctuary enjoys many other unique outdoor facilities that are rooted in nature and wellbeing. The amazing hospitality team offer numerous activities including bike rides in the Dales, mountain bike trails in Denbers Wood, catered picnic experiences, candlelit woodland dining the Garden of Cosmic Origin along with a roaring fire and treetop canopy, forest walks with a professional forest therapy guide to heighten your sensory awareness, wild swimming, an Iglucraft woodland sauna, a fire temple experience with drumming, singing, stories and workshops, foraging and learning to cook a delicious lunch from your harvest, a sweat lodge ceremony which is a psychical and spiritual purification of the body, mind and soul, walking the labyrinth, visits to the Bronze Age Circle on the moor top, moon bathing and a visit to a hermit hut, a private oasis on the edge of a wild swimming reservoir with an open camp fire.

Alternatively, unleash your spirit of adventure with The Land Rover Experience on-site. Our expert instructors will guide you as you immerse yourself in the thrill of driving iconic Land Rover vehicles through challenging, rugged terrains and off-road courses. End your day with the enchanting 'Broughton by Night,' where you can experience celestial wonders like never before. Set on the fringes of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, recognized as an International Dark Sky Reserve, Broughton by Night is a must-see for both astronomy enthusiasts and anyone enchanted by the allure of the night sky.

Utopia is a stunning contemporary building designed by Sir Michael Hopkins which is set within the original walled garden for special occasions with up to one hundred and twenty people. It is also set up as a bistro where you can enjoy delicious breakfasts and lunches.

Broughton Hall can be booked for a week, weekend or just for a special event. You will definitely leave with incredible memories and feel totally indulged.  

*** Please note a 50% deposit of the total value is collected at the time of booking ***