Borrow Hall Including Forecourt Walls

Borrow Hall is a house dating to circa 1740. It is constructed of red brick with black-glazed pantiles to the south front and red pantiles to the rear. The house is two storeys high; the main facade has a five-window range. A plinth course is visible, and the central doorway features a six-panelled door with a plain overlight. A plaque above the door denotes the house as the birthplace of George Borrow. The windows are six-over-six unhorned sashes, renewed in 1990, with those on the ground floor set within segmental heads. A platband runs above the ground floor, and a modillion eaves cornice tops the facade. The roof is gabled with internal gable-end stacks located to the east and west. Brick garden walls extend south to the road from each end of the front facade. A two-storey extension to the east features two six-over-six unhorned sashes, renewed in 1990, to the north gable end. A full-length outshut runs along the rear of the main block, under a catslide roof – it has one plank door, one half-glazed door, and a 20th-century two-light casement window.

The interior of the outshut features panelled window shutters. A front south-east room contains an inglenook fireplace with a reused bridging beam serving as a bressumer. A straight-flight staircase is present. On the first floor, the doors are two-panelled and fitted with HL hinges.

The house is notable as the birthplace of the novelist George Borrow (1803-81).