Sandville, 50 Altrest Road, Sandville, Bready, Strabane, Co Tyrone, BT82 0BZ

Sandville is a detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse built around 1810, located on the east side of Altrest Road, Bready. The house is rectangular in plan, facing south, with a central single-storey canted extension at the north.

The building is traditionally constructed with pebble-dashed walls over a smooth rendered plinth. The east side of the house has a projecting plinth while the west is flush, suggesting the east elevation may have been built using the remains of an earlier farm dwelling. The pitched roofs are covered in asbestos slate with terracotta ridge tiles. Four red brick corbelled gable chimneys with round clay pots project from the gables. The eaves are finished with a smooth rendered course supporting timber bargeboards and replacement ogee uPVC rainwater goods.

The principal south elevation is particularly striking, with a long Georgian character. The central bay contains a four-panelled entrance door with sidelights and a fanlight over, with a tripartite window at first floor above. The left bay features tripartite windows at both ground and first floor, while the right bay contains tripartite windows at ground floor on the left and timber sliding-sash windows on the right at each level. All windows are timber-framed: ground floor windows on the south are generally 6/6 sliding sashes; first floor windows are 6/3 with diminished height, except for two at the far right which are top-hung. All windows have projecting masonry cills and smooth rendered banding. The west gable contains a 6/6 timber sliding sash on the right and a 2/2 timber casement on the left; the first floor is blank. The north elevation is abutted at the centre by the single-storey canted extension with a hipped artificial slate roof. To the left, a four-panelled replacement entrance door with transom light is positioned beside a tripartite casement window. A replacement timber panelled door with glazed panes and two windows occupy the right side, with six windows at first floor. The east gable contains a single 2/2 timber casement on the right; the first floor is blank.

The house is preserved within its original rural setting, with a traditional farmyard to the north enclosed by a replacement plastered boundary wall at the west and single-storey outbuildings at the east. The south side of the house contains a garden enclosed from the road by a rendered boundary wall with square piers supporting a wrought-iron pedestrian gate. Immediately west of Altrest Road stands a former flax mill which pre-dates Sandville. This traditionally constructed building uses random rubble and brick with lime render and a combination of natural slate and corrugated tin roofing. The road-edge building, aligned north to south, contains three round-arched-headed carriage openings, the left of which has a vertically sheeted timber door.

The house first appears uncaptioned on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1832–3, and is later captioned "Sandville" on the 1853 and 1905 editions. A formal garden is also shown on the second edition map. The Townland Valuation of 1828–40 records a dwelling measuring 80 by 25 by 16.3 feet and an addition measuring 9.6 by 9.6 by 5.6 feet, occupied by Robert Alexander. Associated structures included a feeding shed, garden house, and three offices, valued at £20 7s 11¾d. Griffith's Valuation of 1856–64 describes the property as a house, offices, flax mill and land, with Robert Alexander occupying the house as a leaseholder from the Marquis of Abercorn. The buildings were valued at £14 and the flax mill at £4 10s. Annual Revision records show the house passing to the Thompson family in the 1890s whilst remaining leased from the Abercorns. A marginal note dated 1894 records the flax mill and dwelling house in good repair.