Borden Wood House

Borden Wood House is a large house built in 1887 for the Lamb family at Milland, designed in Jacobean style. The main house is constructed of sandstone ashlar with tiled roofs and three elaborate chimneystacks. Subsidiary ranges comprising a service wing form an angled courtyard and were probably added a few years later, built of sandstone rubble with red brick dressings, tiled roofs and brick chimneystacks.

The main house presents principal fronts to the north east and south east. The north east carriage front features a central projecting full-height bay with a Dutch gable adorned with a shell and three ball finials. The date 1887 appears in the pediment with swags above and a cherub below, supported by double fluted pilasters. On the first floor are double Ionic engaged columns and a semi-circular four-light mullioned oriel. The ground floor has two double Roman Doric engaged columns and a round-headed doorcase with stained glass fanlight and double doors. To the left on the first floor is one three-light mullioned window; on the ground floor is a six-light bow window with a carved plaque of a lamb with halo and cross, inscribed with the motto "Palma non sine pulvere". To the right are three mullioned or mullioned and transomed windows. The south east garden front has a central two-storey projection. The first floor features a strapwork cornice and two mullioned and transomed windows divided by Ionic pilasters, with a central armorial device inscribed "VIRTUTE ET VALORE". The ground floor has a verandah with three round-headed arches on Tuscan columns, flanked by gabled projections each containing one window with a second-floor louvred opening and six-light two-storey bays. A pergola on five columns is attached to the return front. The north west wing is two storeys of sandstone rubble with a tiled roof and five mullioned or mullioned and transomed windows. The corresponding south west wing, probably an addition to the main house rather than service quarters as it contains a billiard room downstairs, is also of stone rubble but features four sashes to the first floor (including one tripartite), two Venetian-type bays to the ground floor and a Venetian style dormer. The two subsidiary wings are linked by a one-storey block with a round-headed entrance to the rear.

The interior contains a staircase hall with a baronial fireplace featuring a wooden Jacobean style overmantel with male and female caryatids and strapwork-inspired motifs. The ceiling has an elaborate light well and balcony with strapwork pivoting balustrading. The plastered ceiling displays a rose and pomegranate design with stylised initials of the Lamb family in the corners. A Jacobean style wooden staircase rises from this hall. The kitchen, formerly a drawing room, has an elaborate marble baronial fireplace which may be Venetian, as it incorporates the lion emblem of Venice. The dining room contains a marble fireplace with an iron grate and wooden outer surround featuring grotesque male masks and swags with engaged Ionic fluted pilasters and a modillion cornice. The floor has a border of marquetry Greek Key design. The library is fitted with oak shelves and panelling and features a stone fireplace with fish and shell carving. A plastered cornice with lily design and rose design to the ceiling are present, along with a semi-circular wooden recess with a shell top supported by a putto. A heraldic stained glass six-bay window displays shields of the Lamb family and initials EL and ML. The billiard room has a ceiling with three plastered panels featuring leaves and birds, and a marble fireplace with bolection surround and floral tiles. The principal bedroom retains original built-in cupboards with reeded pilasters dividing the panels and a scrolled cornice, together with a Georgian style fireplace featuring a central swag panel and iron firegrate.