No. 6, Sandy Lane, Tealby, West Lindsey, Lincolnshire: Historic Buildings Survey

Photographs were taken of the building to create an initial archive, and included general shots of the site and detailed photography of room arrangement; main elevations and constructional details such as window openings, and fixtures and fittings, such as doors and window fenestration. Weather conditions were clear and sunny all day. Low light levels necessitated the use of flash in all interior situations and included some fill-in flash to penetrate the shadows in the exterior shots. The photographs were further supplemented by Room-based record sheets and Brickwork recording sheets. No. 6, Sandy Lane is an early 19th-century house, built of brick and ironstone rubble with a pantiled roof. It occupies a triangular plot with single-storey outbuildings to the north and NW. With origins in the late 18th or early 19th century as a moderate-sized cottage, the Corner House has gained an east wing and several modern ancillary structures including the western 'Dining room' extension and a separate double garage. The house has long been associated with a market garden and the east range is locally believed to have been constructed as a seed warehouse. Originally owner-occupied, it was brought into the Tennyson d'Eyncourt estate in the late 19th century and sold from the estate again during the Second World War. The house provides physical evidence of the increasing success of market gardening in what was to become a flourishing late 18th to mid-19th-century period of agriculture in this part of rural Lincolnshire. The improvements in agriculture of the mid-19th century can only have enhanced the success of the business and the house incorporated the warehouse element as a further domestic wing; alterations here now make it difficult to understand the warehouse use of the building. While largely retaining its outer appearance, the interior of the house has undergone an extensive rearrangement in the late 20th century: a former scullery and greenhouse at the west side were replaced by a new 'dining room' extension, along with a new double garage added to the north.