35-36 The Borough

35-36 The Borough is an 18th-century front to an older building dating back to approximately 1600. The facade is painted stucco with a moulded and dentilled eaves cornice. It has an old tile roof and one attic skylight. Two large, angular 18th-century bays project from the first floor, supported by a beam at that level. The upper parts originally oversailed, and a yard entry to the left is slightly set back with a curved bracket supporting the beam. The first-floor bays each have a central five-pane window flanked by two-pane side lights, all topped with cornice heads. The early 19th-century shop front at ground level features a single and double window, architrave surrounds, and a half-glazed door with a plain fanlight on the right. A two-panelled door with a fanlight is on the left. The yard entry has a flat, three-centred arched head.

At the rear, a courtyard contains buildings of various dates, including parts from the 17th and 18th centuries. The buildings are two storeys high, with varying heights. One gable is tile-hung and has a central two-light casement above the yard entry. One wing has two casements on the first floor and two 18th-century windows and a central six-panel door on the ground floor. An additional six-panel door is located to the left, featuring a good scroll brass knocker in an architrave surround with a doorcase of panelled pilasters and cut double scroll brackets supporting a moulded cornice hood. The second section has mullioned and transomed windows, and two smaller leaded casements on the first floor. On the ground floor, there are two-light and three-light mullioned casements and a plain door, plus another door under the yard entry.

The building was illustrated in Country Life in July 1942. It forms a group with the Borough front of the Bush Hotel and numbers 29 to 44 (consecutive). The east fronts of 35 and 36, the stable blocks in the south-east corner, and the stone setts in Borelli’s yard also form a group.