Sand House

Sand House is a country house dating to circa 1750, originally commissioned for William White. It was altered and extended in the 19th century. The house is built of roughcast with freestone dressings, including rusticated ashlar quoins. It features a moulded cornice, a tall parapet forming a blank third storey, plain coping, and three pineapple finials.

The symmetrical garden frontage is two storeys and three bays, with sash windows which retain marginal glazing bars, set within rusticated surrounds with stepped voussoirs. The parapet includes three blank windows designed in a similar style. A central door opening is accessed via a doorcase with rusticated pilasters and a triangular pediment, leading to a half-glazed door.

The right return is also two storeys with a moulded cornice and an ashlar parapet which ramps up to each side, topped with a further pineapple finial. This section has a 2:2:2 bay arrangement, with pilasters between each bay. The windows are sash windows; those on the first floor have 12 lights, while those on the ground floor have lost their glazing bars and are fitted with paired horizontally sliding shutters. An angular bay window with a transom sits on the right side of the ground floor, covered by a hipped tile roof.

The interior retains features from the 18th and 19th centuries, including ornamental plasterwork in the main ground floor rooms. A late 18th century staircase has twisted and turned balusters and a ramped handrail. The dining room has mid-19th century dado panelling with a grained finish. Significant Oriental and Indian decorative arts and woodwork from the 19th century and earlier are incorporated into the house's interior, notably an overmantle and panelling in the right ground floor room and intricate carvings in a large hall to the rear.