Boughrood Motte

.|252x252px]] The current building is constructed near the site of the original motte and bailey Boughrood Castle, which was probably built around the 12th-century. The current house was built by Francis Fowke Snr. (1753–1819) in 1817. On Fowke's death, the house was inherited by his son, Francis Jnr. (b. 1789). Walter de Winton Jnr. was succeeded by his son, Major Walter de Winton (c.1868–1935), who let the house to several occupiers during his tenure. Morgan was a keen angler who used the nearby River Wye for salmon fishing. The family used the grounds of the house to host the annual Boughrood Flower Show, and during the First World War, Morgan's wife, Dorothy, used the home farm as a…

A Cadw report for the property states that some masonry from the original castle stood until, and was probably used in, the construction of the house. In his Powys: Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire and Breconshire volume in the Pevsner Buildings of Wales series, Richard Haslam gives the property as probably being to Francis Fowke's own designs. Fowke's original construction of the house featured battlements to its roof, but these were removed by his son, Francis Jnr. (b. 1789), during remodelling work in 1820. The remodelling also included the extension of rooms into two-storey bays facing roughly west and east, the addition of stone pediments to the south façade and to the west and east gable…