Sands Farmhouse

Sands Farmhouse is a farmhouse built around 1780, featuring Flemish bond brick with flared headers on the front and side walls, and uncoursed limestone rubble at the rear. It has a late 20th-century interlocking tile roof and brick stacks. The building has a double-depth, two-unit layout with a central staircase, designed in a late Georgian style. It stands two storeys tall with a three-window range. The garden front displays a 1:1:1 fenestration pattern, highlighted by a central projecting bay. The central entrance consists of a late 19th-century four-panelled door with an original decorative fanlight and a late 19th-century porch. The windows are topped with flat gauged brick arches featuring keystones, and the six-pane sashes are complemented by a limestone ashlar plinth course and a raised storey band. A late 19th-century gabled roof dormer with an original two-light casement is also present. The gabled roof has gable end stacks.

On the rear wall, there are flat brick arches and brick jambs surrounding a central six-panelled door (four glazed) and sashes. To the right of the door, the windows are blocked by a late 19th-century gabled extension, while the original bay window to the left was blocked and made flush with the wall in the early 19th century. Inside, the farmhouse features stone flag floors and six-panelled doors set in moulded architraves with reeded reveals. The front left and right rooms have moulded dado and cornice, with the former room showcasing a moulded architrave with reeded reveals around a blocked bay window in the rear wall. The first-floor left room retains an original fireplace and cast iron grate. The open-string and dog-leg staircase opposite the door has stick balusters, a wreathed handrail, and fret cut brackets. At the rear of the stairs, a passage connects the house to the dairy block.

The dairy and first-floor cheese room are attached to the right gable of the farmhouse. This structure is also built in Flemish bond brick at the front and limestone rubble on the sides and rear, with a mid-20th-century tiled roof and a brick stack. It is two storeys high with a three-window range, featuring timber lintels over a central plank door and two- and three-light late 19th-century casements. The gabled roof has a right end stack, and the interior includes chamfered beams and quarter turn stairs.