Branxton Farmhouse, Boreland

Mid to later 19th century; alterations (see Notes) by Alexander Tod and A Stewart Tod. 2-storey, 3-bay, L-plan farmhouse with jerkin- headed porch. Squared and snecked, and roughly coursed rubble with dressed margins.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: panelled timber door to centre below cantilevered porch with decorative timber work and fishscale slates, bipartite window in bay to right and canted tripartite to left; windows to outer bays at 1st floor, each breaking eaves into pedimented dormerhead.

N ELEVATION: lower advanced gable to left of centre with small window to right and door with adjacent window on return to right; full-height slightly advanced blank bay to centre with small window to ground and dormerheaded window above on return to right; further window in bay to right.

W ELEVATION: gabled elevation with window to outer left at both floors, and to outer right at 1st floor.

E ELEVATION: gabled elevation with window to outer bays at 1st floor.

8-, 10- and 12-pane glazing patterns (some lying-pane) in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Coped ashlar stacks with cans and overhanging eaves with plain bargeboarding.

INTERIOR: some plain cornicing and dado rails. Winding timber staircase with turned balusters and timber handrail.

ANCILLARY STRUCTURE: small rectangular-plan, piend-roofed, polychrome brick ancillary.