Borease Farmhouse Including Front Garden Wall And Gate Piers To South

Farmhouse. It dates from around the late 17th century and was altered internally around the late 19th century. The construction is dressed granite with a grouted scantle slate roof and gable ends. Tall dressed granite stacks feature, with a larger stack on the right-hand kitchen side, topped with weathered granite caps. The original plan included two front rooms of equal size, heated by gable end fireplaces, connected by a cross-passage. A kitchen is on the right, where the ground level is lower, and a parlour is on the left. Two shallow, unheated service rooms are located at the back within the integral outshut, which likely originally contained the staircase at the centre. Most of the partition on the right side of the passage has been removed.

The exterior has two storeys and a symmetrical three-window front. The first floor has three 19th-century 12-pane horizontally sliding sash windows, with a smaller window in the centre. The ground floor has two 20th-century 2-light casements set within 17th-century chamfered granite frames, the lintels showing stoolings for two missing mullions. A central doorway has a chamfered granite frame with convex stops, and retains an original granite open-fronted porch with chamfered jambs and a cyma moulded cornice to the lean-to roof of scantle slate. The rear roof extends over a single-story attic integral outshut; its first-floor centre window has a chamfered granite frame with stoolings for mullions, and a small 19th-century 2-light casement window has been inserted below. A single-light window is on the left, along with a 19th-century single-light 6-pane attic window and two similar smaller windows in the left-hand west end of the outshut.

Only a partial inspection of the interior revealed a short section of moulded plank partition on the right-hand side of the former passage, now part of the kitchen. The kitchen fireplace is concealed. The internal joinery is largely from the late 19th century, including panelled doors on the ground floor and apparently plank doors on the first floor. The roof structure wasn't inspected.

The property includes a front garden area wall made of dressed granite and granite rubble with dressed coping. It encloses a rectangular front garden with two tall square gate-piers constructed of granite. The piers align with the front doorway of the house.

Borease Farmhouse is an early example of a vernacular building with a double-depth plan and has seen limited alterations since the 19th century. It was a holding within the manor of Tucoys, the only manor in Constantine mentioned in the Domesday Book.