Gates And Gatepiers, North Borland

1. 2-storey, 3-bay, piended-roof house with piended-roof wing to S, forming L-plan. Random whinstone rubble with droved sandstone ashlar dressings. Base course, eaves course, blocking course, raised window margins and quoin strips. Long and short quoins to wing.

HOUSE AND WING: 2-leaf timber panelled door to E (front) recessed in plain, deep-set ashlar architrave with concave reveals; regular fenestration. Irregular fenestration to W (rear): central staircase window; recessed central doorway, now filled in to form window; false window at 1st floor to right. Wing to S irregularly fenestrated with some 20th century openings.

Predominantly 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows; some non-traditional windows to S wing and rear. Corniced wallhead stack to S with clay cans. Graded grey slate.

INTERIOR: half-glazed timber panelled lobby door with frosted glass. Flagged hall. Curved stone staircase with decorative cast-iron balusters with mahogany handrail. Fairly plain traditional fireplace in N ground-floor room. Decorative cornice in former 1st-floor drawing room. Timber panelled interior doors throughout.

NORTH BORLAND COTTAGE: circa 1845. Single storey and attic 3-bay cottage with central filled-in doorway (now window) and flanking windows; 2-bay wing to S and 20th additions to N. Fairly regular fenestration to E; dormers to W. Random whinstone rubble with sandstone dressings. Some 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows; some non-traditional glazing. Ashlar-coped skews. Graded grey slate.

GATES, GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALL: sandstone ashlar gatepiers with 2-leaf decorative cast-iron gates to N of house. Coped random rubble boundary wall.