Southfields

Southfields is a country house, originally a farmhouse, built in the mid-17th century and significantly extended in 1921 for Major Pomeroy. The building features coursed squared ironstone and has 20th-century plain-tile roofs with stone internal stacks. The original structure has a two-unit nucleus, which has evolved into the right cross wing of an E-plan country house. It stands two storeys high with an attic and has a nine-window range due to the extensions.

The 17th-century right wing includes a prominent central two-storey gable porch on the right side, which has a rusticated ashlar front. This porch features a round-arched doorway with a ridged plank door and imposts, a moulded string course at the first floor, and a pediment above the doorway. There is a vertical oval leaded window on the first floor with four keyblocks, along with a smaller leaded window in the gable. The side windows on the first floor are similar, and there are small rectangular leaded ground floor side windows with moulded stone surrounds. The date 1660 is scratched into the stonework of the porch, along with other later dates.

To the right of the porch, there is a two-light ovolo-moulded stone mullion window on the ground floor with a hood mould, and a blocked window on the first floor. The gable ends have three-light ovolo-moulded windows, with similar windows on both the ground and first floors, all featuring hood moulds. The gables are stone-coped with kneelers.

The 20th-century extensions are designed in a style that complements the 17th-century original, with limestone banding between the wings. The entrance side has a two-storey central gabled porch with a stepped three-light stone mullion window and a datestone inscribed P/RK/1921. The garden front has a central door with a bolection-moulded stone surround, flanked by five-light mullion and transom windows with hood moulds. Hipped roof dormers are present in the main range between the wings, and there is a single-storey service wing to the left side of the left cross wing.

Inside, there is an ogee-stop-chamfered spine beam in the ground floor room of the original wing, along with an open fireplace featuring an ogee-stop-chamfered bressumer.