Sandon Bury

Sandon Bury is a large house built in 1661 for J. Nicholas, with significant alterations and extensions made in the early 19th century. The building is constructed of Flemish bond red brick and features a steeply pitched hipped slate roof.

The house has five bays and is double depth, standing two storeys with an attic, although the front is raised to three storeys. The entrance has been moved from the center to the right, featuring a four-fielded panelled door with a rectangular fanlight and a moulded surround. The ground floor has tall glazing bar sash windows in shallow reveals with gauged brick flat arched heads. A plinth and a plat band are present at the first floor, which has smaller sash windows and a Sun Fire Insurance Marker. The later attic includes small six-light flush frame sashes, and the eaves soffit is panelled and bracketed. The house has four end stacks.

To the right, there is a lower two-bay addition that replaces a 15th-century wing. The ground floor features large French windows with a slightly cambered gauged brick head. The first floor has two sashes similar to those on the main block, with the roof hipped to the right. The left end continues the plinth and plat bands, with two first-floor sashes and an attic sash in the rear gable, which has a half hip. There is a 19th-century lean-to outshut on the left front with an entrance and a sash window, as well as a 19th-century gabled brick porch at the rear left, which has a vertically panelled door and a lean-to attached to the right.

The right end features a half hip to the rear block, which has an entrance with a bracketed hood, a ground floor two-light casement, and a first-floor small sash, along with two plat bands. The 19th-century block has an extruded stack to the rear with twin flues. At the rear, the ground floor has flush frame 16-pane sashes with gauged brick flat arched heads, although the left bay is blocked. The first floor has similar sashes, with the central window fixed and the one to the right of center featuring early diamond leaded panes.

Inside, there is an early 19th-century stair with a twisting moulded handrail, a moulded panelled parlour, and an original dog-leg stair to the rear with column-on-vase balusters, heavy square newels, and a moulded handrail.