Building record 1257 - Sandy Cottage, Sandy Lane, Toft

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 59146 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

House, formerly farmhouse. Mid to late seventeenth century with nineteenth century additions and alterations. Red English garden wall bond brick and timber frame with whitewashed infill and slate roof. Entrance front: four by three cells of small framing to right hand side on stone plinth with angle brace to corner. Further row of four cells above these indicating raising of roof line. Two-light window at left. Brick walling to left with two casements of two-lights with splayed heads and nineteenth gabled dormers above these. Outhouse with corner roof line to left with two single-light casement windows. Twentieth century lean-to right. Right-hand gable end: Queen-post truss to gable with angle and arched braces. New purlins inserted in nineteenth century when building re-roofed at shallower incline. Rear: four by three cells of small framing to left with four more cells above as an entrance front. One ground floor two-light casement window. three, two and three-light casement windows to right. One two-light casement window to first floor left.

<2> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, EDT 402/2, c.1848 (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

The tithe map depicts the farmhouse with a building of identical dimensions located directly opposite. Both plots are described as cottage and garden and are occupied by William Paulden.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1871-1882, Ordnance Survey County Series (Epoch 1) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ7675, 1876-1877 (Maps and Plans). SCH2462.

This map depicts the house with a smaller square building to the south-east and a smaller building to the east of the northern end of the house.