Old Manse, Borthwick

Earlier 19th century. 2 storey; 3 bay, L plan manse with mid 19th century additions and alterations. Squared and snecked tooled sandstone with droved dressings, polished to margins; long and short quoins. Base course; chamfered reveals; blind pointed arched recesses set in gableheads; decorative stone finials to apex of gables.

SE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; mid 19th century gabled bay advanced to left with bipartite window to ground and single window centred to 1st floor; single storey, stugged, gabled mid 19th century porch to re entrant angle; panelled timber door and small window to right return; regular fenestration to centre and right bays.

NE ELEVATION: asymmetrical; advanced gabled bay to left with single window offset to left at 1st floor; window to right return at 1st floor; central bay (mid 19th century) recessed, with later snecked sandstone rubble porch and car port advanced to ground floor; window to left; car port to right with window and door to inside left return; skirt roof; irregular fenestration to 1st floor; mid 19th century bay to right slightly recessed with single window centred to ground.

NW ELEVATION: asymmetrical, 3 bay; advanced central bay (mid 19th century) with bipartite window at ground; single window to 1st floor; stone finial missing; car port in bay to left (see above); late 20th century conservatory in re entrant angle with recessed bay to right.

SW ELEVATION: asymmetrical, 3 bay; gabled central bay with single window off centre to left of ground and 1st floors; regular fenestration to outer left; blank bay to right.

Predominantly 12 pane lying pane and 8 pane timber sash and case windows. Purple grey graded slate roof with lead ridges; stone coped skews with beaked skewputts; cast iron rainwater goods; polished ashlar gablehead stacks with paired offset corniced flues; ridge stack detailed as above; single ridge stack.

GATEPIERS, BOUNDARY WALLS AND OUTBUILDINGS: stugged sandstone gatepiers with stop chamfered droved angles and pyramidal caps. Random rubble boundary wall to NE, NW and SW; coped to NW and SW; droved doorway to NE with boarded timber door; roofless rubble lean to with central doorway and corrugated iron roofed rubble lean to adjacent, to centre of SW inside wall; rubble wall with semi circular coping perpendicular to SW wall swept down to house; boarded timber door leading to front garden; Rubble outbuilding with boarded timber door and slate roof to S corner of garden; simple cast iron railings on low rubble wall to SE of manse.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997.