Southill Hall

Southill Hall is a small country house built in the mid-18th century and largely rebuilt in 1821 by John Dobson for Thomas Fenwick. It features ashlar sandstone and graduated green slate roofs. The main block has a square plan and a T-shaped service range on the north side, designed in a plain classical style.

The main block is two stories high and has three bays across the front. It has a low plinth, with corners that break forward, and a tall parapet above the cornice, which includes balustraded sections. The west front has a wide entrance with a projecting surround that features a cornice and blocking course, leading to a replaced door. The windows are sashes with the intermediate glazing bars removed, and the ground floor windows are elongated. There is a narrow two-story canted bay on the south side, along with a later single-story projecting bay and a wide two-story canted bay on the east. The low-pitched hipped roof is concealed by the parapet, and there are ridge stacks with top bands.

The service range is slightly taller, with three stories and three bays on the inner returns, as well as seven bays across the rear. The windows here are also sashes with square-cut reveals, featuring 12-pane windows below and smaller 6-pane sashes on the second floor. This section also has a low-pitched hipped roof and tall corniced ridge stacks.

Inside the main block, there are six-panel doors with wood architraves, a three-flight open-well staircase with a cut-string design and a handrail supported by ornamental cast-iron balusters. The ground-floor rooms have simple classical cornices.

There are single-storey outbuildings that enclose a yard at the rear of the service range, but these are not of special interest.