Fairboroughs Farmhouse

Fairboroughs Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1673, with a late 19th-century refrontage and alterations. The 17th-century sections are built with rough-faced coursed stone, while the 19th-century front features smooth-faced stone. The roof is covered with machine tiles and has verge parapets on corbelled kneelers. The building has a hall plan with two cross wings and a cross passage located in the lower wing.

The entrance front faces south and is largely from the late 19th century. It features two projecting gables that are two storeys high with attics, flanking a central recess. Each section has paired 2-light casement windows placed centrally in the wings and offset to the left in the centre section. The attics of the gables have restored 3-light chamfered mullion windows. To the left of the east gable, there is a Tudor-arched doorway with a datestone above inscribed "IPS 1673" and a counter-boarded, nail-studded door.

The east front has a gable on the left with a range of 2:3:3-light chamfered mullion windows, although the ground floor 3-light window is missing a stone mullion. To the right is a set-back kitchen wing with a plinth, a large window that was formerly an ovolo mullion and transom, and a Tudor-arch doorway to the left. The north front mirrors the south front, with the right gable featuring 3-light chamfer-mullion windows on each floor and attic, and a range of 2-light chamfer-mullion stair windows offset to the left.

The rear of the hall has been rebuilt in brick. Inside, a through passage in the east wing connects to the kitchen or downhouse and separates the sculleries and pantries from the hall to the west. The hall has a higher ceiling with heavily chamfered beams and joists, and it was formerly fitted with a heck and firehood, as indicated by the ceiling pattern. There are paired doors at the west end of the hall leading to the original stair location, which now features a 19th-century stair in the northeast corner of the west wing, along with a parlour that has rough-cut chamfered beams.