Old Sandpitts

Old Sandpitts is a detached house that was originally a farmhouse, with a core dating back to the 15th century. It features an open hall and has a ceiling from around 1600, along with 20th-century alterations. The building has coursed dressed stone walls and a thatched roof, which has a gable end on the right and a gable on the left at the front. The left gable has stone coping topped with a ball finial. There are three brick stacks: one on the left front side wall, one backing onto the cross-passage, and one on the right gable.

The former open hall has been ceiled, and a front range was added at right angles in the 17th century. The house is two storeys tall and features three windows in the main range, which have four-light stone mullions that are hollow-chamfered, with separate labels above the ground floor windows. The first-floor windows do not have labels. The house includes 19th-century iron and 20th-century metal casements. The front door, located to the right of centre, is made of planks and muntins, is studded, and has strap hinges. There is a 20th-century wooden porch with a hipped thatch canopy over the door.

Inside, the roof has an arch-braced collar-beam construction with two bays of cusped wind-bracing, which defines the open hall and further wind-bracing above the inserted stack. There is evidence of smoke-blackening from the 15th century. The hall ceiling, dating from the mid-16th century, features a cross of beams with massive straight chamfers. A wide inserted fireplace, backing onto the original cross-passage, has stone jambs and a straight chamfered lintel. There is a large open fireplace below the cross-passage with a wooden lintel that has run-out stops. The parlour extension at the higher end includes a 17th-century depressed-arch fireplace with straight-chamfered stone jambs. The position of the hall stair is possibly unaltered, although the stair itself has been rebuilt.