Sands Hall

Sands Hall is a country house built around 1638, with a worn sundial on an outbuilding to the east dated 1640. The house was rebuilt and had wings added around 1826. It features rendered and painted masonry and brick, with a 20th-century plain concrete-tiled roof and rendered chimneys. The main block is flanked by wings that are set back on the entrance front and project slightly on the garden front.

The entrance front has a low plinth and raised-and-chamfered quoins. The three-storey, five-bay main block includes a central tetrastyle Ionic portico with a replaced six-panel door set in an architrave, a four-pane overlight, and a cornice. The windows have projecting sills, with 12-pane sashes on the ground and first floors and 6-pane sashes above. The roof features flat-coped gables, shaped kneelers, a central ridge, and two end chimneys. The two-storey, two-bay wings have 12-pane sashes, hipped roofs over the returns, and end chimneys. The right return has five closely-spaced windows on each floor, all blocked except for two on the ground floor. The garden front has similar window arrangements to the entrance front but lacks quoins and has a central, partly-glazed 19th-century door with an overlight in a moulded wood surround.

Inside, the house mainly features early 19th-century fittings. A ground-floor room to the right of the entrance hall showcases mid-18th-century elements, including a moulded dado with wall panels, a dentilled cornice above, eight-panel internal window shutters, and a marble chimney-piece.