Sandhill Farmhouse And Walls Enclosing Forecourt On South Front With Mounting Block Attached

Sandhill Farmhouse is a manor house dating from the late 16th century, with later additions and alterations. It is constructed of random rubble with slate roofs, featuring coped verges and large stone stacks to the left of the entrance and at the junction with a cross wing. The plan is unclear without internal inspection, but likely incorporates an open hall, now ceiled, to the right of the porch, with a solar cross wing and a service end cross wing added later. A full-height gabled porch is centrally located on the left side of the front elevation. There is a large four-light gabled dormer window rising from below the eaves on the right, and a three-light dormer inserted into the roof space on the left. Ground floor windows consist of three-light ovolo moulded wooden mullioned and transomed windows beneath head moulds flanking the porch; these are assumed to be reproductions of the original windows. A two-and-a-half storey cross wing features similar two-light windows on the ground floor and segmental headed windows above, with an unsighted bay to the right. The service end cross wing is one and a half storeys high, with segmental headed mullioned and transomed windows with keystones. The porch has a chamfered depressed arch, and the inner door is studded. The interior was inaccessible during the survey and may warrant a higher group value assessment. A 1588-dated panelled screen is said to exist to the right of the cross passage. Random rubble walls, approximately 1.5 metres high, enclose the forecourt on the south front, with a chamfered pointed arch opening and a rectangular parapet. A five-step mounting block is attached to the left.