Boughrood Castle

Boughrood Castle is a small, late Georgian country house built in the 1820s using locally sourced coursed stone and covered with a slate roof. The house is two storeys high, with portions rising to three storeys. The plan organizes reception rooms facing southwest, alongside ancillary and service rooms arranged around a courtyard opening to the northeast.

The main reception range is distinguished by corner and central pilasters that rise to a central pediment. An open, pedimented porch supported by columns now stands in place of the original curved porch, featuring a glazed front door with sidelights and a fanlight; a radial fanlight remains inside, hinting at the prior design. Paired eight-paned windows are located centrally, while twelve-paned sash windows are present on both floors. A central plat band runs along the facade. The roof and side walls project at both ends, culminating in square columns on bases that rise to pediments. Between these columns, the end elevation is bowed. An upper-floor window with four lights, mullions, a transom, and margin glazing is also present.

Rear ranges incorporate similar twelve-paned windows over two floors, along with gable stacks. A tall stair window with intersecting glazing bars is visible in the stairwell. A secondary entrance is marked by a Tuscan portico and a round-headed opening above a six-panelled door and radial fanlight.

The interior, as recorded in a 1966 photograph held by the National Monuments Record, includes depressed moulded arches on reeded imposts around the open stair hall, and six-panelled doors. Plaster friezes and fluted pilasters decorate the hall and staircase, which has wrought iron balusters in a vertical patterned design. The house was not accessible at the time of inspection in July 1995.