Boghead House
Country House (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Boghead House
Classification Country House (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 100084
Site Number NS96NE 12
NGR NS 9573 6801
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/100084
- Council West Lothian
- Parish Bathgate
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District West Lothian
- Former County West Lothian
Boghead
The home of the Robertson-Durham family, demolished 1962, leaving a lodge, with a hood-moulded window, and a roofless rectangular doocot. It was on this estate that Torbanehill cannel coal was first mined by Paraffin Young for extracting mineral oil. Whiteside was the site of Paraffin Young's first oil refinery in 1851.
Taken from "West Lothian: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Stuart Eydmann, Richard Jaques and Charles McKean, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
NS96NE 12.00 9573 6801
NS96NE 12.01 NS 9574 6790 Dovecot
NS96NE 12.02 Centred NS 9563 6788 Walled Garden
NS96NE 12.03 95882 68382 Lodge
Boghead House: A plain commodious building two storeys high having an extensive ornamental park. It is the residence of Durham Weir Esq.
Name Book (Linlithgowshire), 1856
Boghead House is depicted as roofed on the 1st edition of the Os 6-inch map,(Linlithgowshire, 1854-5), sheet 9 within its own grounds. (It has since been demolished)
Information from RCAHMS (DE) 3 May 1996
NMRS REFERENCE:
Boghead was demolished c. 1955. Information from Demolitions catalogue held in RCAHMS library.