North Borland Cottage, North Borland

North Borland features a house and cottage built around 1845. The two-storey, three-bay house has a piended roof and a piended-roof wing to the south, creating an L-shaped layout. It is constructed from random whinstone rubble with sandstone ashlar dressings, including a base course, eaves course, blocking course, raised window margins, and quoin strips. The wing has long and short quoins.

The house's eastern (front) elevation has a two-leaf timber panelled door set back in a plain, deep-set ashlar architrave with concave reveals, and features regular window placement. The western (rear) side has irregular fenestration, including a central staircase window, a central doorway that has been filled in to create a window, and a false window on the first floor to the right. The southern wing has irregular windows, some of which are from the 20th century.

Most windows are timber sash and case with predominantly 12-pane glazing, although there are some non-traditional windows on the southern wing and rear. A corniced wallhead stack with clay cans is located on the southern side, and the roof is covered with graded grey slate.

Inside, there is a half-glazed timber panelled lobby door with frosted glass, and the hall is flagged. A curved stone staircase features decorative cast-iron balusters and a mahogany handrail. The northern ground-floor room has a fairly plain traditional fireplace, while the former first-floor drawing room boasts a decorative cornice. Timber panelled interior doors are found throughout the house.

The North Borland Cottage, also dating from around 1845, is a single-storey and attic structure with three bays. It has a central doorway that has been filled in to create a window, flanked by two windows, and a two-bay wing to the south, along with 20th-century additions to the north. The eastern elevation has fairly regular fenestration, while the western side features dormers. The cottage is built from random whinstone rubble with sandstone dressings and has some 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, along with some non-traditional glazing. The skews are ashlar-coped, and the roof is also covered with graded grey slate.

The property includes sandstone ashlar gatepiers with decorative cast-iron gates to the north of the house, along with a coped random rubble boundary wall.