Broughton Hall is a heritage-listed former residence, convalescent hospital and psychiatric clinic situated in Callan Park, which has its main entrance on Balmain Road, Lilyfield, New South Wales in Sydney's Inner West.

It is situated within the Callan Park Conservation Area, in Church Street, Lilyfield, near the corner of Wharf Road.

[1] Before European settlement the Wangal clan or band lived at the site and their territory extended along the Parramatta River from about Petersham westward.

Due to a smallpox epidemic between 1789 and 1790 and European land development, only about 50 people from Dharug families were living in the Sydney area by 1900.

[1] The Garry Owen Estate was originally owned by Crown Solicitor and Police Magistrate John Ryan Brenan.

The house is completed, and posession [sic] can be given immediately...stands in a position which commands a beautiful view of the Parramatta River and Lane Cove"[5] and in 1856 "...never-failing water hole and pump...".

[6] It is believed that water for Broughton House's fountains and ponds was originally fed from a natural spring, from between the clay and sandstone stratum.

After his death on 2 July 1905, his family sold the estate (the combined properties of Broughton Hall and Kalouan) to Annandale timber merchants William and Frederick Langdon in 1912.

[5] During the First World War changes to mental health care were instigated and in 1914 patients could only be treated if they were committed into one of the major institutions.

Dysart's modernist design was innovative in its day, built on the concept of architecture and landscape as components of therapeutic psychiatric care.

Its modernist style is unusual in the wider context of Callan Park or Rozelle Hospital, much of which is Victorian or Federation-era.

Health services were increasingly scaled back over time, leaving many buildings in the larger complex empty.

[9] The Friends of Callan Park have expressed concern about vandalism and fire damage to the house and "serious neglect" of the heritage gardens.

[13][1][9] The original Broughton Hall building is a two-storey Victorian Georgian Revival style residence with additions in the 1880s.

[5][1] It has expansive grounds comprising rainforest landscaping and other temperate climate trees and shrubs arrayed around a creekline running northeast of the house downhill to the Parramatta River.

Terracing and level changes marked in brick and stone retaining walls are immediately north of Broughton Hall's main homestead.

[1] The house is one of the oldest remaining in the district and has strong associations with the early development and history of the Rozelle area.