Southwick Court Farmhouse

Farmhouse. Dating to the late 16th and 17th centuries, this building is constructed of rubble stone with dressed limestone detailing and English garden wall bond brick. The roof is covered in stone slate with coped verges, and features lateral and axial stone and brick stacks. The house has an L-shaped layout.

The north west front, which is two storeys and six windows wide, showcases five recessed chamfered cross windows on the ground floor, with a bull's eye window in the possible former doorway, above which is a string course. The first floor has five two-light mullioned casements, the right three with a hoodmould. A bull's eye window sits above the ground floor bull's eye, with a single-light casement to the left. The gable of the wing to the right has a two-light mullioned casement with a hoodmould. The right return side displays a 20th-century casement and small leaded casements to the brick portion on the left. A large external stone and brick stack with offsets is situated to the right, alongside a single-light casement. A hipped attic dormer features a two-light casement. The left return, which is attached to a gatehouse (listed separately), has a blocked doorway.

The rear garden front includes double planked doors within a moulded square-headed architrave, centrally located to the left. A single-light moulded casement sits to the left, and three two-light mullioned casements are positioned to the right. The first floor has a single-light, a bull's eye window, and three mullioned casements. Four grouped stacks are situated opposite the doorway. A projecting wing on the left has a four-light mullioned and transomed casement to the gable end and ground floor of its right return; these appear to be 19th-century insertions. The first floor of the return features a three-light mullioned casement, and the gable end includes a single-light attic casement.

The interior, inaccessible during a survey in June 1987, reportedly contains remnants of late 16th-century timber framing in a wing, along with reused smoke-blackened roof timbers, several Tudor-arched stone fireplaces, and a late 17th-century staircase. The house occupies a moated site and is believed to be a 16th and 17th-century rebuilding of an earlier, significant house. A chapel dedicated to St John the Baptist was demolished in 1839. The property has a history of ownership by the Stafford family in the 14th century, the Willoughby family of Brook Hall in the 15th century, and the Longs of Whaddon from the late 17th to the late 19th centuries. Datestones inscribed "1567/W.B." (Walter Bush) and "1693/S.W.L." are reported to be present.