Southcott House

Southcott House is a house from the early 19th century located in Weare Giffard. It features stucco over slatestone rubble and has a hipped slate roof with brick ridge and lateral stacks. The building has a double-depth plan and is designed in a Regency style. It stands two storeys high with a symmetrical three-window range, flanked by one-storey bays.

A verandah spans the front of the house, featuring a coved lead roof supported by trellised iron pillars. The façade includes flat rendered arches over late 19th-century plate-glass French windows, a central late 19th-century six-panelled door, and late 19th-century eight-pane sash windows with flanking shutters on the first floor. The one-storey bay to the right has a tall early 19th-century twelve-pane sash window flanked by shutters and an early 19th-century gutter decorated with lions' mask motifs. The left bay has a late 19th-century two-light casement above a nine-pane sash window, and there is an early 19th-century sixteen-pane sash window in the left gable end.

Inside, the house features panelled doors and shutters, with the doors set in reeded architraves and panelled reveals. Early 19th-century moulded plaster cornices adorn the rooms. There is an early 19th-century fireplace with a Gothick-style cast-iron grate in the left room and an early 19th-century marble fireplace in the right room. A central hallway leads to an inner hall that includes a fine early 19th-century dog-leg staircase with a landing, wreathed handrail, stick balusters, and fret-cut brackets. The first-floor rooms have not been inspected.