Saunders Court

Remains of country house, vacant 1815; undergoing renovation 1844; occupied 1852; sold 1855; occupied 1863; sold 1889; demolished 1891, including: Detached three-bay two-storey wing on a rectangular plan with single-bay two-storey gabled flush end bay. Renovated, ----. Pitched (gabled) and hipped slate roof with ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having "Cavetto"-detailed capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls with rusticated quoins to corners. Segmental-headed central door opening with rendered "bas-relief" surround having splayed reveals framing timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing replacement casement windows replacing six-over-six timber sash windows. Set in shared grounds.

A wing surviving as an interesting relic of a country house described as '[a] very extensive [and] fine courtly building so complex in its general character as to render it very difficult to be accurately described' (Lacy 1852, 16; cf. 15703765).