Barmoor Castle

Barmoor Castle is a country house largely built in 1801 by Patterson of Edinburgh, incorporating earlier masonry and with subsequent construction throughout the 19th century. The building is constructed of ashlar, with a Lakeland slate roof, and is designed in a classical style with castellated Tudor detailing.

The main entrance front has three storeys and three bays, with a four-storey central tower porch projecting forward, featuring diagonal corners. A single-storey, bow-fronted entrance is set within the porch, leading to a pair of six-panelled doors in a tripartite doorcase, surmounted by a segmental fanlight. Mullioned-and-transomed windows are set beneath hoodmoulds. The tower has a heavy corbel table beneath the battlements. Flanking bays have a moulded cornice below the battlements. To the right are two further bays in a similar style, and a round corner tower which forms part of a banqueting wing on the right return.

The banqueting wing is two storeys high, with seven bays and a central, three-bay shallow bow window. It also includes round corner towers.

The rear facade is similar in style to the front, though the central bow is three storeys high and set in a tower-like projection.

The interior features an oval entrance hall with niches, and a three-storey cantilevered staircase with wrought-iron balusters, capped by an oval glass dome. The main rooms on the first floor include an oval room above the entrance hall, adorned with an anthemion frieze and Chinese wallpaper. An oval saloon features a glass dome and eight doors, four with pediments and four with decorative sopraporte. An adjacent room has a swivel fireplace which was shared with the saloon. Numerous fireplaces of good quality are present throughout.

The banqueting wing was roofless and decaying at the time of the survey.