Durborough Farmhouse

Durborough Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, with later additions and alterations from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, as well as some changes made in the 20th century. It is constructed of rubble ragstone and has a Welsh slate roof. The building has a T-shaped plan, with the early 17th-century section located at the rear of the front range, which includes a right-hand part added in the 19th century.

The farmhouse is two storeys high, featuring four first-floor windows and a narrow bay set back on the left side. The windows are primarily early to mid-20th-century small-pane metal casements set below wooden lintels, except for an earlier small-pane casement window with diamond-set mullions, iron saddle bars, and lead cames located on the first floor of the rear cell, as well as a similar window on the first floor of the left return of the main range.

On the garden front, there is a 20th-century glazed door within an added hipped-roofed porch supported by pillars. The front has five windows on the ground floor and four above, with a raised verge featuring ashlar coping at the left end. There are old brick stacks to the left and between the third and fourth first-floor windows, which was formerly an end stack.

At the rear, the early 17th-century cell has a brick gable stack, which has been rebuilt at the top. There is an added single-storey dairy on the left and a 20th-century link to a converted outbuilding, although neither the link nor the outbuilding is of special interest.

Inside, the early 17th-century cell on the ground floor features wall panelling with a fluted frieze, a fireplace with a chamfered surround and a deep, chamfered timber lintel, and a compartmental ceiling with beams that have deep chamfers. The roof structure includes principal rafters with halved collars, a square-section ridge-piece, roughly-hewn square-section rafters, and tusk-tenoned purlins. The front right room, which was formerly a cider room, has a window in the rear wall (leading into the dairy) with diamond-set wood mullions. In the left-hand section on the ground floor, there are chamfered cross-beams with lamb's tongue stops. The main interest of the building lies in its surviving early 17th-century features.