HMS DRYAD (SOUTHWICK HOUSE)

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1096247
Date first listed:: 24-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: HMS DRYAD (SOUTHWICK HOUSE)
Statutory Address:: HMS DRYAD (SOUTHWICK HOUSE)

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1096247
Date first listed:: 24-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: HMS DRYAD (SOUTHWICK HOUSE)
Statutory Address 1:: HMS DRYAD (SOUTHWICK HOUSE)

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: HMS DRYAD (SOUTHWICK HOUSE)

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hampshire
District:: Winchester (District Authority)
Parish:: Southwick and Widley
National Grid Reference:: SU 63308 08742

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 30/11/2016

SU 60 NW 13/9 SOUTHWICK AND WIDLEY HMS Dryad (Southwick House)

II Country mansion. Replacement in similar style in 1843 of a house built 1800 but destroyed by fire in 1840. By S Howell. Walls of stucco, roof hidden by parapet. Symmetrical south front elevation with slight projections at each side and central bow, of three storeys, 2.1.3.1.2 windows. Rusticated ground-floor, rusticated quoins, architraves to the windows, with pediments (segmental and triangular) to the first floor, eaves cornice on console brackets. Sashes in reveals. The ground-floor has a continuous verandah, supported on Ionic columns. The east elevation, of similar form, is symmetrical, of three storeys, 1.3.1 windows, with a porte-cochere of four Ionic columns. To the west side there extends a two-storeyed service wing, of 1.5.1. windows. Headquarters of General Eisenhower and the scene of the planning of the D-day invasion 1943-44. It is understood that a large map specifically commissioned for this purpose remains in situ, covering a wall in one of the ground floor rooms.

Listing NGR: SU6332408824

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 146566
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.