Southwood Hall

Southwood Hall is a house, originally built before 1661 for the Bacchus family. It is constructed of red brick, some rubbed and moulded, with a pantiled roof. The house is arranged over two storeys and attics, with a symmetrical five-bay elevation. A central two-storey gabled porch dominates the front. There is a plinth at ground level.

The ground floor features a 20th-century glazed door within a round-headed opening, flanked by low pilasters with moulded caps. The side walls of the porch have lozenge-shaped piercings and pilasters rising through two stories. To the main body of the house is a massive boarded entrance door, retaining its original ironwork, including an iron door-knocker. To the left and right of the entrance are three-pane sashes set within flat gauged brick arches. A broad, deeply moulded band runs across the first floor, but is missing above the windows to the right. The first floor also has four-pane sashes under flat gauged brick arches, with the window above the porch displaying a deeply moulded floating cornice and pediment. A roll-moulded band sits beneath a dentilled eaves cornice, likely representing an early 18th-century raising of the eaves level. Dormers with sliding sashes and glazing bars are set into the attic roof, alongside a small six-pane window in the porch gable. Brick kneelers raise the gable ends, and brick stacks are present. Straight joints on the main elevation, particularly to the far right, indicate previous phases of fenestration.

The interior remains largely unaltered except for the replacement of fireplaces in the principal rooms around 1720. A closed-string staircase features heavy turned balusters, a moulded handrail, and square newels with pendants and ball finials, rising to the attics and continuing in a short flight to the roof apex, which is boarded out for storage. Bolection-moulded fireplaces are found in all the principal rooms, and bolection-moulded panelling adorns the left-hand ground and first-floor rooms. The doors to the two bedrooms are each of three bolection-moulded panels, set within eared architraves with friezes and broken dentilled pediments. The door to the first-floor room in the porch is boarded within a pilastered surround below a frieze and broken pediment, featuring a short central pilaster and finial. The attics retain their original boarded doors, and most of the door furniture dates to the mid-17th or early 18th centuries. Most of the floorboards are original. One right attic room retains a small, round-headed 17th-century fireplace with continuous chamfer and run-out stops.

Three loose 18th-century oak panels are stored in the attic: one painted with a mythological scene, and the other two with figures in stylized landscapes. These were likely original furnishings for the principal rooms, later used as pictures. The house is considered to be the best-preserved example of its type and period in North Humberside, with no significant alterations since its early 18th-century appearance.