Over Borland Farm

Over Borland Farm is a farmhouse dated 1776, with early and mid-20th century alterations to the byres and a bathroom extension added to the house in 1948. The building is a two-storey, three-bay farmhouse featuring a 20th century porch and adjoining byres that form a U-plan courtyard to the south (front). The structure is constructed of white-washed random rubble throughout, with the house rendered at the front. It has ashlar margins and long and short droved sandstone quoins on the byres. Notable architectural details include a base course, a moulded eaves course, raised ashlar window margins, and quoin strips on the house.

The house has an off-centre 20th century porch to the south, in front of a plain ashlar doorway inscribed with "RN JS 1776," and a stone next to the doorway inscribed "JMN MRS 1912." The south elevation features regular fenestration, while the byres are adjoining the gables. There is a piend-roofed brick outshot to the north (rear) from 1948, a 19th or early 20th century staircase window in the centre, and regular fenestration in the outer bays. The outer left has a brick outshot with a timber-boarded back door.

Inside, there is an 18th century chimneypiece in the former kitchen, which includes a shelf recess to the right, three monolithic sandstone jambs with bracket-shaped capitals supporting a sandstone lintel, and a pointed-arch recess in the left jamb of the fireplace. The south-facing windows have plate glass glazing in timber sash and case frames, while the north-facing windows predominantly feature 4-pane glazing. The house has corniced stacks, ashlar-coped skews, and a graded grey slate roof.

To the west, there is a byre range adjoining the house at the west gable, which is a piend-roofed L-plan byre extended to the south around 1900. This range has some later openings to the courtyard and is irregularly fenestrated on both elevations, with some slit windows on the west side.

To the east, there is another byre range adjoining the house at the east gable, which is a mid or late 19th century gabled byre with a brick addition to the courtyard elevation, also featuring ashlar-coped skews.

The walled garden, likely from the 18th century, has its south, east, and west walls rebuilt around 1916. It is made of random rubble with flat sandstone coping and includes cylindrical gatepiers with conical caps to the south.

Additionally, there is a random rubble boundary wall to the south of the house, which features large, monolithic, roughly hewn sandstone gatepiers.