Sansaw

Country house dated 1773, with alterations and additions dated 1888 for Mr James Jenkinson Bibby, a shipping owner, and late twentieth-century alterations. Built in red brick with yellow and grey Grinshill sandstone dressings beneath a hipped slate roof.

The main structure comprises five by six bays with quadrant wings leading to a pair of pavilions that form an entrance courtyard to the north. The building rises three storeys with single-storey pavilions. The south or garden front displays a plinth, stone dentil cornice, and a balustraded parapet that was altered or rebuilt in 1888, with urns and a segmental-raised centre bearing a shield lettered "B". Three cruciform-shaped ridge stacks with stone cornices and caps rise from the returns and rear.

The south front is fenestrated 2:1:2 bays with glazing bar sashes set in gauged brick heads with stone cills. The central first and second-floor windows feature bracketed cills and lugged moulded architraves; the first-floor window also has a frieze and moulded cornice. A projecting late nineteenth-century ashlar ground floor of 3:3:3 bays contains two square bays with Doric pilasters flanking a central porch with cable-fluted square-section Ionic columns, continuous entablature with triglyph frieze, moulded cornice, and balustraded parapet with dies. The central pair of half-glazed doors has a plain fanlight behind a late eighteenth-century ashlar Doric doorcase with three-quarter columns, triglyph dosserets, dentil cornice, open triangular pediment, and side-lights with lugged architraves and continuous dentil cornice. The right-hand return front features a nineteenth-century square bay to its left and a tall staircase window in the second bay from the right.

The pavilions comprise a left-hand eighteenth-century example with late nineteenth-century and late twentieth-century alterations, and a wholly late nineteenth-century right-hand pavilion. Each has a plinth, moulded cornice with blocking course, triangular-pedimented gable ends, and a brick ridge stack. Both feature Venetian windows to their fronts with frieze and moulded cornice. The left-hand quadrant link is mostly twentieth-century work of five bays, whilst the right-hand quadrant link dates from the nineteenth century and features a keyed oculus.

The north or entrance front displays three bays with a projecting ground floor containing a large three-bay Tuscan porch and Ionic doorcase behind. The wings feature tripartite windows to the front, that to the right having a carved stone panel above.

The interior is predominantly from 1888 and follows eighteenth-century revival style. A pair of ground-floor front rooms are decorated with egg and dart plaster cornices and ceilings with thin strapwork ornament; both contain probably late eighteenth-century marble fireplaces. The staircase rises around a rectangular well with open string, cut brackets, turned balusters, and a moulded ramped handrail with curtail. A screen with Tuscan columns in antis is present.

The late nineteenth-century alterations to the house included extending the main block to the north, doubling it in size, altering the western pavilion, and rebuilding or adding the eastern pavilion. In the late twentieth century the house underwent further alteration through demolition of some late nineteenth-century additions, including a full-height bay and the top two storeys of a service block to the west (visible as new brickwork), and by incorporating a garage within the western pavilion and remodelling the link between it and the main block.

The house stands within a park that includes a stable block to the north, an ice house, and an ornamental lake.