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

Sandville is a detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse built circa 1810, located on the east side of Altrest Road, Bready, County Tyrone. The rectangular building faces south with a central single-storey canted extension at the north.

The roof is pitched and covered with asbestos slates, with terracotta ridge tiles and four red brick corbelled gable chimneysstacks topped with round clay pots. The eaves are smooth rendered with timber bargeboards and replacement ogee uPVC rainwater goods. The walls are pebble-dashed over a smooth rendered plinth; notably, the east side of the house has a projecting plinth while the west is flush, suggesting the east side may have been built using the remains of a previous farm dwelling, though the house in its entirety appears to date from circa 1810.

The principal south elevation contains a central bay with a four-panelled entrance door flanked by sidelights and a fanlight above, and a tripartite window at first floor. The left bay has tripartite windows at both floors, as does the right bay on its left side; the right of the right bay contains timber sliding-sash windows at each floor. Windows to the south elevation are generally 6/6 timber sliding sashes at ground floor and 6/3 at first floor (diminished in height), except for two at the extreme right which are top hung casements. All windows have projecting masonry cills and smooth rendered banding unless otherwise stated.

The left west gable contains a 6/6 timber sliding sash window on the right and a 2/2 timber casement on the left; the first floor is blank. The rear north elevation is abutted at its centre by the single-storey canted extension with hipped artificial slate roof. To the left, there is a four-panelled replacement entrance door with a transom light, and a tripartite casement window to the right. Left of the extension is a replacement timber panelled door with glazed panes above; two windows are positioned to the right, with six windows at first floor. The right east gable contains a single 2/2 timber casement on the right; the first floor is blank.

The house is set within a rural farmyard to the east of Altrest Road, preserved within its original setting. The traditional farmyard to the north is enclosed by a replacement plastered boundary wall at the west and single-storey outbuildings at the east, which are traditionally constructed with roughcast rendered walls and natural slate roof to the south. 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 are several single-storey and two-storey outbuildings, including a former flax-mill which pre-dates Sandville house. These are traditionally constructed with random rubble and brick, lime rendered with a combination of natural slate and corrugated tin roofing. The road-edge building, aligned north-south, contains three round-arched-headed carriage openings, the left of which contains a vertically sheeted timber door.