Sandford Park

Sandford Park is a small country house built around 1700, possibly for Gerard Croker, and later remodeled and enlarged in the late 18th century. The building is constructed of marlstone ashlar with limestone dressings and features Welsh-slate roofs with ashlar stacks. It has a double-depth plan that has been extended to a triple-depth plan.

The house stands two storeys plus an attic and three storeys in total. The five-window marlstone front has chamfered rusticated quoins, a cornice, and a balustraded parapet with ball finials. The central bay projects slightly and is topped with a small triangular pediment that contains an architraved oculus. Above a 20th-century stone doorcase, there is a segmental-arched window with a double-stepped keyblock. The outer bays feature twelve-pane sash windows set in stone architraves with angle rolls, and the keyblocks at the ground floor are linked to a storey band.

The left return wall includes an attic storey above the returned cornice. The late 18th-century limestone garden front has three storeys and a higher cornice, with large Venetian windows flanking the central doorway, which is adorned with an Ionic porch and an ornamental fanlight. The first floor has 16-pane sashes, while the top floor has twelve-pane sashes. The right return wall is altered and irregular but retains one early sash window with wide glazing bars and connects to the stable court.

Inside, there is a deep stair hall featuring a curved cantilevered late 18th-century stone stair with a cast-iron balustrade. This opens into a fielded-panelled room that includes an early 18th-century marble fireplace. The double-depth library, formed from two early 18th-century rooms, has fielded panelling and a dentil cornice, along with one marble fireplace. The late 18th-century rooms at the rear have contemporary fireplaces and mahogany panelled doors.