Borough Farm Outbuildings

Borough Farm Outbuildings is a house and outbuilding, now serving as an outbuilding, dating from the 18th century, with a late 19th-century extension. The structure is made of roughly coursed granite rubble and features a gabled roof, with pantiles on the right side and corrugated iron on the left. The lower outbuilding to the left, built between 1880 and 1906 according to Ordnance Survey maps, has a gabled pantile roof with a lean-to added to the front. The building has a rectangular plan, with a two-storey former dwelling on the right that incorporates the outbuilding on the left. The former dwelling has granite lintels above a central doorway, which features a 20th-century stable door, a left-hand ground-floor window, and two first-floor windows. The integral outbuilding to the left shares the same roof and includes a left-hand doorway and a first-floor window. There is also a single-storey 19th-century outbuilding with a loft added to the left, featuring gable-end entry and a front lean-to open to the same side.

Inside the former dwelling, there is a granite lintel over a small fireplace on the left and a large fireplace on the right, which has a stone hood supported on a bressummer and stone cheek. The floor is cobbled in parts and includes concrete, with remains of earlier 20th-century stalls and mangers. This building is a significant surviving example of a small two-unit 18th-century house on the Isles of Scilly, closely related to a type of vernacular housing found in other Atlantic Seaboard areas of western Britain. Although it is completely disguised externally, it has retained internal fireplaces (including the one on the right with a stone hood) and original joists in the right-hand section. Internally, it represents the best surviving example of a small dwelling on the islands, predating the mid- and late-19th-century rebuilding.