Sandy Haven House

Not available for inspection. Said to have been extensively modernised. The S end room had an old fireplace, since replaced, the adjacent room to N has closely spaced squared joists. Stair-hall to N and one room further N, this with an arched recess in N wall and panelled C18 cupboard in W wall. Archway to E leads to what may have been the original entry. Whitewashed rubble stone barrel-vault to ground floor of SE wing which was latterly a dairy. S doorway with rubble 4-centred arched head. Stair removed from NE stair turret possibly in C17 and replaced by one in N end of main range, since also replaced. Panelled parlour in NW wing, of c1700, bolection-moulded fielded long panels and frieze of narrow panels above. Moulded dado rail. At right end of S wall an arched doorway with double panelled doors and at left end a panelled recess. C19 fireplace between. Modern roof to main range, four collar trusses with notched lapped collars over NW wing, chamfered on undersides.

Substantial farmhouse, former gentry house. Roughcast rubble stone originally, surviving at NE and NW, C20 unpainted cement render extensively on SE and SW parts. Imitation slates to roofs. Complex additive plan. The main range runs N-S, and is a tall narrow three storey and attic block with coped N and S gables and apex small chimneys. There are large roughcast wallface chimneys near-central to both E and W sides. That on the E is a large bifurcated stack at junction with SE wing. To right is a projecting NE gabled stairtower with apex stack. The SE wing has coped E gable and apex stack. On S side it has the main entry, a rubble stone arched opening to recessed porch. Small window right, and large 12-pane sash above. To left, the end of the main range has battlements on E side, between the chimney and SE angle, and tall one-window S elevation. Attic ovolo-moulded stone-mullion 2-light window with dripstone, centre mullion missing. This is immediately over 2nd floor large 12-pane sash. 12-pane sash to first and ground floors. S farmhouse range (see below) is attached to SW angle of main range. On main range, NE stair tower has one C20 window to ground floor and one similar to 2nd floor, E end, and one to first floor on N return. Main range N end has similar C20 windows (2-light timber mullion with concrete lintels), 3 vertically on left side, one on right, but gable has original stone mullioned 2-light with hoodmould. W side of main range has massive central side-wall stack, roughcast and corniced, on roof slope with outshut to right and broad gabled projecting NW wing to left. Outshut is plain and rendered and runs into roof of added S range (see below). NW wing is C17 with coped W gable, apex small stack and large S side-wall stack with battered chimneybreast and tall rubble stack. W end C20 large first floor mullion and transom 3-light timber window with concrete lintel, ground floor 12-pane sash, similar large C20 window on N side. Narrow outshut to left in angle to main range, NW wing has 2-storey lean-to on S side continued W of W gable to finish in an asymmetrical gable. W end first floor 12-pane sash and ground floor C20 window, small window each floor in short N return.

Long S wing is probably C18 but may be older. 2-storey, with 2 roughcast ridge stacks and massive S end outside stack, the top rubble stone and square. E front has 12-pane horned sashes, 3-window range with centre door to right, one-window range to left and lean-to porch to extreme left, with door facing N, similar sashes E and S. S end has sash first floor right, wall flush with chimney, but wall to left of chimney is set back showing scale of the chimney, with long slate-roofed lean-to against chimney W side. Rear W has centre large C20 flat-roofed addition up against a NW stair gable with 12-pane sash and dripstone above (S slope of gable has been raised and built into C20 addition). Lean-to porch to left, between stair gable and lean-to on C17 NW wing.