Sands Farmhouse
SANDS FARMHOUSE, SANDS HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1212647
- Date first listed:
- 17-Sept-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Sands Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SANDS FARMHOUSE, SANDS HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1212647
- Date first listed:
- 17-Sept-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Sands Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SANDS FARMHOUSE, SANDS HILL
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SANDS FARMHOUSE, SANDS HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dyrham and Hinton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 73955 75055
Details
ST 77 NW DYRHAM AND HINTON C.P. SANDS HILL (south side), Dyrham
5/179 Sands Farmhouse 17.9.52
- II
Farmhouse. c.1800 remodelling of earlier building with C19 and C20 alterations. Rubble with stone dressings and quoins, ashlar porch with plain tiled roof, double Roman tiled roof with raised coped verges and kneelers, gable stacks. L-plan, symmetrical front. South front of 2 storeys and 3 windows, all 3-light casements with wide ovolo mullions in recessed surround, first floor central 2-light window, 3 smaller 2-light casements at attic level, central C19 gabled porch with scalloped bargeboards, C20 window to each side of porch and C20 door in chamfered surround; 2-light cellar window to left, string course above lintels of ground and first floor windows, 4 C20 roof lights. Left return has ground floor similar 3-light casement, two 2-light windows lighting stair, lower one with dripstone, C20 2-light casement at first floor and small 2-light casement at attic level; recess for former oven to left; gable end to right has small round-headed blocked cellar window, ground floor C20 window, first floor 2-light casement with chamfered mullion and surround and C20 attic window. Right return has C20 porch attached, 3-light casement with chamfered mullions and dripstone, C20 attic window in gable end to left; single storey outhouse attached to right, with door and 2 C20 windows under eaves, lean-to at rear with small square light in heavy timber frame. Rear has C20 window to rear of outhouse, single storey block (possibly former dairy) attached to gable end of house, with 2-light casement with ovolo mullion and dripstone. Interior: plank and batten door to east porch in moulded frame with carved stone set over lintel; south east room has heavy chamfered beams, deep lintel to fireplace with cupboards to right and left, cupboard to left with splat baluster ventilation panel; winder stair to 2nd floor. 5-bay roof to front, 2 bays to rear wing, principal rafters, collars, with braces under. 2 rows of purlins and ridge purlin.
Listing NGR: ST7395575055
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 396853
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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