Sandown House

Sandown House is a late 17th-century building that was remodelled in the 19th century and now serves as Elmbridge Council Offices. It is stucco-faced with rendered dressings and quoins, topped by hipped and mansard slate roofs. The building has rendered stacks with cresting to the left and right of the centre, as well as rendered stacks to the rear. It comprises two-storey wings and a three-storey and attic centre pavilion with three pedimented dormers. The wings are articulated by rusticated piers with a string course above the ground floor and a cornice at the eaves. The windows are glazing bar sash windows set in projecting rendered surrounds, featuring cill brackets and garlanded aprons to the first-floor windows. Flat hoods shelter the ground-floor windows.

The central five-bay pavilion has channelled treatment to the ground floor and quoined ends, a modillion cornice and a balustrade at the eaves. The second-floor windows are in strip surrounds with scroll aprons below, and the first-floor windows have panelled projecting flat hoods. Ground-floor windows feature block voussoirs. A central double half-glazed door is set in architrave surrounds, topped by a pedimented Ionic portico supported by two fluted columns. A square wooden cupola with chamfered corners and a ribbed dome sits on a square plinth and contains a clock face in the centre of the pavilion roof.

A five-bay extension projects to the left, with two storeys and an attic under five pedimented dormers – alternating triangular and segmental – and glazing bar sash windows on the first floor. The extension has part-glazed doors and five across the ground floor.

Inside, the entrance hall features a staircase with fine twisted balusters, a swept handrail, and foliage carving on the tread ends. An Ionic screen and eaves moulding are present. The building is described in Nikolaus Pevsner's Buildings of England: Surrey (1971), pages 221-222.