Saville, Sanday

This is a late 18th-century farmhouse with later alterations and additions, set within a group value context. The main house is a symmetrical, three-bay, two-storey and attic building arranged in a T-plan, with crowstepped gables. A single-storey, lean-to porch is located on the principal, east-facing elevation, and a similar porch extends from the southwest internal angle at the rear. The walls are constructed of harl-pointed random rubble with painted cement margins to the east side.

The east elevation features a boarded front door with a window in each bay flanking a three-bay lean-to porch in the centre, with a window at both ground and first floors above. The side elevations have a similar arrangement, with windows at each floor set offset within gabled bays, and gablehead stacks positioned above. The north side has a window at ground level in a bay set back to the left. The rear, west-facing elevation has a single-storey link to a barn at ground level in an advanced bay to the centre, with an attic window offset to the left above and a gablehead stack. A modern, part-glazed, timber panelled door sits within a lean-to porch on the left, flanked by a window. A blank bay is located to the right.

The windows are predominantly four-pane timber sash and case, with small rooflights. The roof is traditionally graded stone tiled, with a replaced stone tiled roof on the entrance porch, and corrugated-iron and fish-scale tiled roofs on the rear porch. Stone ridges and skews are present, along with corniced rubble gablehead stacks to the north, south, and west. Rainwater goods are a mix of cast-iron and uPVC.

The interior of the main farmhouse was not inspected in 1998. Several ancillary buildings form a small courtyard to the rear (west) of the farmhouse. These include a rectangular, gabled threshing barn oriented north/south, linked to the main house via a single-storey link, and a single-storey, three-bay store at a right angle to the west. A rectangular-plan store/barn, oriented east/west, is located to the north, with a further lean-to shed at the west end. These buildings are also constructed of harl-pointed random rubble. The ancillary buildings date to the later 19th to earlier 20th centuries and have corrugated-iron, asbestos, and fish-scale tiled roofs; stone skews; boarded doors; and timber-framed windows. Inside the threshing barn, traditional timber threshing machinery remains. The interiors of the other ancillary buildings were not inspected.

A rubble wall encloses a large, rectangular-plan garden to the south, with a lean-to shed at the southwest angle.