56, Southover High Street

No 56 Southover High Street is a house dating from the mid-18th century, which was refronted in the early 19th century. The building is finished in stucco, featuring a horizontally-rusticated ground floor with a string course above and a moulded cornice at the eaves, leading to a Horsham slab roof that has two large stacks positioned behind the ridge. The house has two storeys and attics, with three pronounced segment-headed dormers. On the first floor, there are plastered pilasters adorned with honeysuckle and palmette capitals. The front has three windows, with the outer windows set in two-storey canted bays. The windows are glazing bar sashes, and there is a single sash window above the entrance. The central doorway has a panelled door topped by a fanlight with intersected glazing bars. A projecting porch features an impost band above the arched doorway and a coped parapet, with raised panels on the sides and front, as well as a boot-scraper.