Southwick Court Farmhouse
SOUTHWICK COURT FARMHOUSE, FROME ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1194818
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Southwick Court Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTHWICK COURT FARMHOUSE, FROME ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1194818
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Southwick Court Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOUTHWICK COURT FARMHOUSE, FROME ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTHWICK COURT FARMHOUSE, FROME ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Southwick
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 84511 55808
Details
ST 85 NW SOUTHWICK FROME ROAD (off south side)
6/155 Southwick Court Farmhouse
11-9-68
GV II*
Farmhouse. Late C16 and C17. Rubble stone, dressed limestone. and English garden wall bond brick, stone slate roof with coped verges and lateral or axial stone and brick stacks. L-plan. Two-storey, 6-window north west front has five recessed chamfered cross windows and bull's eye in possible former doorway with string course carried over, first floor has five 2-light mullioned casements, the right three with one hoodmould, bull's eye over ground floor bull's eye and single-light casement to left, attic gable of wing to right has 2-light mullioned casement with hoodmould. Right return has C20 casement and small leaded casements to brick left hand part, large external lateral stone and brick stack with offsets to right, single-light casement to right, hipped attic dormer with 2-light casement. Left return with attached gatehouse (q.v.) has blocked doorway. Rear, garden front has double planked doors in moulded square-headed architrave to left of centre, single-light moulded casement to left and three 2-light mullioned casements to right, single-light, bull's eye and three mullioned casements to first floor, four grouped stacks opposite doorway. Wing projecting to left has 4-light mullioned and transomed casements, C19 insertions, to gable end and ground floor of right return, 3-light mullioned casement to first floor of return and single-light attic casement to gable end, said to have datestones inscribed 1567/W.B. (Walter Bush) and 1693/S.W.L. Interior not accessible at time of survey (June 1987), but said to have remains of timber-framing in wing dating from late C16, some reused smoke- blackened roof timbers, several Tudor-arched stone fireplaces and late C17 staircase. House on moated site and probably a C16 and C17 rebuilding of an earlier house of considerable importance, a chapel dedicated to St John the Baptist was pulled down in 1839. Owned by the Stafford family in C14, Willoughby family of Brook Hall (q.v. North Bradley) in C15. Longs of Whaddon owned the house in late C17 until late C19. (VCH, Wiltshire, Vol 8; Wiltshire, Archaeological Magazine, Vol 14, 1872; Wiltshire County Council)
Listing NGR: ST8451155808
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 314601
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pugh, RB, Crittall, E, The Victoria History of the County of Wiltshire, (1965)
Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine in Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, Vol. 14, (1872)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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