Southwick Home Farm

Southwick Home Farm is primarily a late 19th-century complex with early 20th-century improvements, incorporating some earlier work. It is a large and complex farmstead that includes a water-powered mill, dairy, and cheese production facilities.

The mill is a large, two-storey rectangular structure built from rubble with a piend roof, featuring granite quoins and margins. It has a cast-iron breast-shot rim-drive wheel, approximately 15 feet in diameter, with timber buckets. This wheel was once used to power a threshing mill, a feed chopper, and an early 20th-century milking machine; however, all internal machinery has been removed. The mill pond to the north and the lade remain intact.

To the northeast of the mill, there is a U-plan grouping of buildings that includes the farmhouse and cheese lofts. This consists of two separate ranges of tall two-storey buildings, with the northern range built into the slope of the ground, making it appear lower.

The northern range is L-shaped and contains three steam boilers on the left side, with pipes that duct steam to the long cheese loft above. There are external steps leading to the loft door in the east gable, and six regularly spaced openings on the north elevation with slotted shutters. The byre on the ground floor has some altered openings to the south, and the roofs are slate with flat skews.

The southern range includes the farmhouse, which was refaced and extended to the east in 1914 to provide more loft space. The left side features a symmetrical three-bay farmhouse with bipartite windows that have rendered brick margins, and sash and case windows with 12-pane glazing. There is a panel dated 1914 above the central door. The right side of this range was extended around 1914, containing tiled dairy rooms on the ground floor and cheese lofts above, with the first floor having steam ducted from the earlier boiler range to the north via a metal pipe. The roofs are slate, with axial stacks on the house and end skews featuring brick skewputts.

To the southwest of the mill is a round-ended barn, constructed in the late 18th or early 19th century, which has an apse-ended wall to the east. It features rough rubble walling and a well-graded slate roof. The ground level has changed significantly, and the barn now faces a modern cattle court.