Southcott House

Southcott House is a house dating from the 17th century, with an extension added around 1860. It is constructed of rendered stone rubble and cob, topped with gable-ended slate roofs, the ridge of the 19th-century range being higher. The front features a lateral hall stack with a pair of diagonally set stone rubble shafts that have been heightened in brick, along with a brick stack at the left end of the 19th-century range and a stone rubble stack at the gable end of the rear service wing.

Originally, the house likely had a three-room through-passage plan with a two-storey service wing at the rear, though the lower end was later demolished, and a partition was added across the through-passage to create a lobby entry. The right end has a three-bay 19th-century wing. The 17th-century core includes a three-window range, featuring a gabled two-storey porch with six-paned sashes above a central pier. This porch has a recessed doorway to the left, framed by a fine ovolo moulded surround with elaborately moulded bar-ogee-scroll stopped durns and a two-panelled door, while a four-paned sash is located to the right. To the right of the porch, there are two twelve-paned sashes above a four-paned sash, which is to the left of two more twelve-paned sashes. The 19th-century wing has a three-window range, all with twelve-paned horned sashes and horizontal sliding timber louvred shutters. The porch at the left end has a slated gabled roof, and the rear service wing features 19th-century fenestration.

Inside, most rooms on both storeys have two-panelled doors. There is a winder staircase at the rear of the hall. The inner room boasts a late 17th-century or early 18th-century moulded plasterwork ceiling, divided into two fields by a moulded central beam, which originally had central roundels in each field; one roundel is missing, and part of the cornice has been removed in the rear right-hand corner due to access being made into the 19th-century range. The roof space has not been inspected.