Sandhoe Hall

Sandhoe Hall is a country house built in 1850 by John Dobson for Sir Rowland Errington, incorporating parts of an earlier house. It is constructed of squared stone with ashlar dressings and has graduated Welsh slate roofs. The building has an irregular L-plan, consisting of the main block and a long north-west domestic wing.

The main south front features two storeys and attics, with four wide bays, where the first and third bays are gabled. In the third bay, there are six steps leading to French doors in a one-storey projection with canted corners and a pierced parapet, above which are three close-set windows. The right bay has two windows, while the others have one each; the windows are 2- and 4-light casements, with ground-floor windows featuring pointed-arched lights and upper windows mostly under hoodmoulds. Slit windows are present in the gables, and there is a half-dormer in the second bay. The building has a plinth and a string course below a coped parapet adorned with ball and spike finials. The gables are coped, and there are stacks with conjoined hexagonal shafts. The left return displays a two-stage oriel above a pointed-arched door and a three-storey service wing, possibly incorporating older masonry, which has dormers and sash windows and projects to the left.

The east entrance front has four bays, with the left two being gabled. A one-storey porch with arcaded sides and an elaborately shaped gable projects from the first bay, and the second gable is also shaped. The windows are a mix of sashes and casements in raised surrounds, with an oculus situated between the two right first-floor windows. The eaves are plain, and there are coped gables and ridge stacks.

Inside, the drawing room features a rich plaster ceiling and heraldic stained glass, which is also present in the porch. The closed well stair has a segmental vault and ornamental plasterwork.

The house appears to have at least three building phases, none later than 1860, when the 25-inch to 1 mile Ordnance Survey map shows the current layout. Earlier estate maps suggest that the north-west wing is part of an older house that was remodeled in the mid-19th century.