Branxton Farmhouse, Boreland

Branxton Farmhouse, located in Boreland, dates from the mid to later 19th century and underwent alterations by Alexander Tod and A Stewart Tod. This two-storey, three-bay farmhouse is designed in an L-shape and features a jerkin-headed porch. The exterior is constructed from squared and snecked, roughly coursed rubble with dressed margins.

On the principal (south) elevation, there is a panelled timber door at the center, sheltered by a cantilevered porch adorned with decorative timber work and fishscale slates. To the right of the door is a bipartite window, while to the left is a canted tripartite window. The first floor has windows in the outer bays, each breaking the eaves into pedimented dormer heads.

The north elevation features a lower advanced gable to the left of center, with a small window to the right and a door accompanied by an adjacent window on the return to the right. There is a full-height slightly advanced blank bay at the center, which has a small window at ground level and a dormer-headed window above on the return to the right. Another window is present in the bay to the right.

The west elevation has a gabled design with a window in the outer left at both floors and a window in the outer right at the first floor. The east elevation also has a gabled design with windows in the outer bays at the first floor.

The windows throughout the farmhouse feature 8-, 10-, and 12-pane glazing patterns, some of which are lying-pane, all set in timber sash and case frames. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are coped ashlar stacks with cans, along with overhanging eaves that have plain bargeboarding.

Inside, the farmhouse includes some plain cornicing and dado rails, as well as a winding timber staircase with turned balusters and a timber handrail.

Additionally, there is a small rectangular-plan ancillary structure with a piend roof, constructed from polychrome brick.