Listed Building: SANDILANDS AND THE BACKS (1263942)

In the entry for: WORTH CAMBRIDGE AVENUE (south side) Sandilands and The Backs 2/139 The first sentence of the description shall be amended to read: "House, now subdivided, one part a private house the other a residential house" WORTH CAMBRIDGE AVENUE TR 35 NE (South side) 2/139 Sandilands and The Backs II House, now residential home. Circa 1930 for Lord Vestey, by Sir Reginald Blomfield. Red brick in English Bond with plain tiled roof. L-shaped plan with bowed re-entrant. Two storeys and attic on basement with plinth and moulded cornice to hipped roof with 3 flat roofed dormers and stacks to left and to right, at right angles to each other, and to rear. Projecting 4 bay centre piece with giant pilasters. Five glazing bar sashes on first floor, 4 on ground floor, the centre and outer windows with keyed heads. Central double 4-panelled doors with rectangular fanlight, moulded architrave and flying cornice and 8 moulded steps. Regular fenestration of glazing bar sashes throughout rear and return elevations. Wall extending to north of main house about 6 feet high, enclosing The Backs, originally the service wing to house of one storey and attic, with hipped roof, 3 flat roofed dormers and canted bay to right with central glazed door. Interior: heavy bolection moulded panelling in some rooms, moulded skirting and cornices throughout. Oval rooms in re-entrant, with enriched lugged fireplaces. Staircase hall, with small panel wainscotting, triple round headed arcade on one wall, making 2 doorways and central recessed shell headed niche. Open well stair with ramped moulded rail and turned balusters. The panelling in this hall is reputed to have come from a Chateau owned by Lord Vestey in the Loire, and some 200 years old. Listing NGR: TR3534258888