Border Minstrel Public House To North West Of Brandling House

The Border Minstrel Public House, located to the northwest of Brandling House, is an ancillary pavilion originally built as a country house and now serving as a public house. It was constructed in 1757, as indicated on the rainwater head, and designed by James Paine for Charles and Elizabeth Brandling. The building is made of sandstone ashlar with a plinth and features a Welsh slate roof.

It stands three storeys tall with five bays, and includes a right coach house extension that has two lower storeys and one bay. The central three bays are accentuated with rusticated quoins, while the outer bays contain four-panel double doors with an overlight to the right. The central three bays project slightly and feature a round-headed window flanked by plain reveal windows. There are five sash windows with late 19th-century glazing bars on the first floor and four on the second, all adorned with voussoirs.

Additional architectural details include a first-floor band and a dentilled eaves cornice. The hipped roof is topped with a central chimney that has canted corners. The right extension, which is one bay and two storeys, has a panelled impost band above a blocked segmental arch, with an inserted ground floor sash and a first-floor sash set in a recessed panel, along with a first-floor sill string. The hipped roof of this extension features a parapet with a central banded chimney.