Borough Farmhouse Including Adjoining Cider House To North-East

This is a farmhouse, dating from the mid-to-late 16th century, with alterations and additions from the 17th and 19th centuries. It is constructed of rendered rubble with a gabled slate roof. A rendered stone stack with a shaped top is situated at the left gable end.

The original layout was a three-room plan with a through passage, featuring screens for the passage and a lower room to the right. It is currently unclear whether there was originally an open hall, as only one original roof truss is visible, and that is clean. There was a rear lateral stack to the hall and a gable end stack to the unheated inner room. The lower room was unheated, and the inner room was likely modified in the 17th century. In the 19th century, the façade was re-fronted, the interior was modernized, a passage was inserted between the hall and inner room, and a rear service wing was added. Around this time, a pound house was likely added beyond the lower room. In the early 20th century, the passage and lower room fell into disuse and are currently unoccupied, with the lower side screen having been removed and the front door of the passage blocked.

The front façade, dating from the mid-19th century, is symmetrical with a three-window arrangement. It features 8-pane sash windows with horns, and a central panelled door within an arched opening with a fanlight above. A barn extension to the right-hand side has double plank doors. The rear wing has late 20th-century casement windows with large panes.

Inside, a rear doorway to the former passage contains a circa late 16th-century chamfered oak door frame with a depressed 4-centred arched head; a possibly original studded plank door with strap hinges is also present. A plank and muntin screen remains in the passage, displaying chamfered muntins with straight-cut stops and a chamfered head beam. Its original doorway is blocked. The chamfered head beam, the only remaining part of the lower-end screen, has mortises for muntins and grooves for planks. The original roof truss, visible over the lower room, consisted of substantial principal rafters, threaded purlins, and a mortised cranked collar. Rougher 18th and 19th-century trusses with lapped collars were added later. The lower room contains cross beams with worn chamfers. Beyond this is a pound house containing a cider press and machinery, primarily of wooden construction. The hall was completely modernized in the mid-19th century and contains panelled shutters and doors, with no earlier features visible. The inner room retains a central cross beam and half beam at its gable end, both chamfered with bar and hollow step stops. The original fireplace likely survives behind later blocking.

The house possesses interesting features from various periods, with more early features likely hidden. The survival of the cider press, and its adjoining position to the house, is relatively unusual.