Sayesbury Manor Council Offices

Sayesbury Manor Council Offices is a building that dates from around 1780, although it may have been remodeled earlier. An early 19th-century one-bay extension was added to the west, along with extensive outbuildings to the north. The building is set back beyond a car park and was originally oriented to the south. It features a Carpenter's Gothic style, with a two-storey timber-framed structure that is stuccoed and has a steep hipped roof now covered with slate.

The original symmetrical south front has seven windows and gable chimneys, with the extension matching this style. The first floor has flush box sashes with 6/6 panes and label drip moulds that rise to a blunt point in the centre. The ground floor has uniform French windows, which are later additions. The eaves overhang has a flat soffit adorned with alternately placed lion masks biting rings and smaller lion masks.

The entrance features an early 19th-century six-panel central flush door with reeded mouldings around the panels, and a decorative wooden Gothic porch from the 18th century with a flat top. This porch includes two free-standing columns and two half-columns attached to the wall, all topped with a full entablature. The columns are made up of four clustered colonnets with annulets, and the frieze includes sunk trefoils, tongued brackets, and a coved and arched cornice. The design is influenced by Batty Langley's "Gothic Architecture Restored and Improved" from 1741.

Inside, the central stair has rooms on either side, and the rear half of the building has a lower first floor under the continuation of the main roof, with a staircase expressed as a higher gabled central feature on the north side. The columned porch on the north side was likely added when this became the main entrance. The interior has been significantly altered, although a panelled room at the southeast of the ground floor may be original, and the stair balustrade has been changed.

To the northeast of the house, there is a range of lower stuccoed timber-framed buildings with slate roofs, described in the deeds as domestic offices, an archway, a harness room, and a stable, which runs parallel to the house. The property was known as Roselands in the 19th century, changed to Hatters Croft in 1902, and then to Sayesbury Manor in 1939, according to the East Hampshire District Council deeds. The Gothic porch is noted as the most elaborate of four in the town.