Sandford Manor

Sandford Manor is a manor house dating to the 16th century, though with earlier core elements and 19th-century alterations, originally for Thomas Broughton. It is marked on Ordnance Survey maps as Sandford Farmhouse. The building is constructed of coursed and squared red sandstone rubble, with hipped and gabled slate roofs, coped verges, and 19th-century brick stacks. It has a T-plan with two distinct heights, and the main entrance is in a lower wing at the rear.

The entrance frontage is two storeys high, with a 1:2 bay arrangement, the left bay projecting. The windows are predominantly 3- and 4-light, with reserved chamfer stone mullions, alongside a single ovolo-moulded stone mullioned window. Several ground-floor windows have relieving arches; two have iron stanchions and leaded lights, and two small single-light windows are set in stone surrounds, one blocked. The semi-circular doorcase features bold carved leaf decoration to the spandrels, a moulded cornice on fluted and reeded three-quarter columns with plain capitals and bases on pedestals, each decorated with a lozenge. A triangular pediment at the apex has a base for a finial, and the tympanum displays an achievement with mantling, bearing the inscription "TB 1570." The doorway leads to a benched porch, and a studded plank inner door is set within a pegged wooden frame.

The left return has three bays and includes two 3-, 4- and 5-light 19th-century wooden mullioned windows, some with transoms, and a single 16th-century 4-light stone mullioned window with a relieving arch. A gabled stair turret is situated on the west elevation of the main block, with the stairs now removed. Some 16th-century ovolo-moulded wooden mullioned windows are present on the rear elevations.

The interior has been significantly altered. A notable feature is the large fireplace with a moulded 4-centred stone surround, alongside some moulded 16th-century door surrounds. Re-used 16th-century panelling is found on the first floor, and there is an early 19th-century staircase. Historically, this was the Manor House of the Manor of Sandford.