Southfield

Southfield is a gentry house, likely dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of unpainted stucco with a hipped slate roof and large, later 19th-century yellow brick end stacks. The main front has a symmetrical three-window arrangement, featuring hornless 12-pane sash windows and a central door. Slate sills are present throughout. The door is an 8-panel design with an overlight, set within a late 20th-century plain wood doorcase that replaced a similar earlier one. Raised quoins and keystones are visible above the windows.

To the left side, a three-window range extends from the end wall of the main house, which is stuccoed and features matching sashes on both floors, positioned to the right of a chimney. A rear wing extends to the left of the main house, built of exposed rubble stone and containing a two-window range of similar sashes. A brick lean-to porch with a ground-floor door has been added to the right, and a stone stack is located at the left end. Each window is characterised by recessed stone voussoirs (the wedge-shaped stones forming an arch), raised keystones, and slate sills. The rubble stone end wall is slightly outshut, or set back, to the left. A long, central stair light, with 18 panes, features stone voussoirs and a slate sill; a further outshut section includes a small 12-pane sash and a 9-pane sash above.

The right end wall of the main range is also of rubble stone, with a hipped lean-to extending to the right, forming a single-storey range. This lean-to has one short window in the end wall, three in the side wall, and one in the rear wall. The rear of the building is hipped at an angle, with a short gabled return framing one side of an opening into a small rear court. The rear court itself is enclosed by whitewashed rubble walls with varied eaves levels.

The rear of the single-storey range has a gable with a door, a door and a window to the left, and incorporates a whitewashed blank end wall facing the gable of the single-storey range. The rear of the main house features a slight outshut with a 12-pane sash to the ground floor and a 16-pane sash to the first floor. A slight projection with higher eaves is positioned in the angle to the right, with a hipped roof that connects to the roof of the rear wing. A pointed stair window with Gothic intersecting glazing bars is also present. The rear of the rear wing has high eaves in the centre, with the roof sloping down on each side over projections, with both roofs hipped on their inward-facing angles. To the left of the projections is a stair projection, and to the right is a larger projection. A window with a pair of small 12-pane sashes is set between the projections.

The interior was not inspected, but details are understood from photographs taken during restoration. The entrance hall features double half-glazed doors, six-panel doors on either side, and a moulded hall arch supported by moulded corbels. A staircase opposite the entry has a narrow well and a 6-panel door leading to the cellar. The staircase itself is characterised by a continuously ramped rail, scrolled at the foot, and stick balusters with scrolled tread ends. Principal rooms have panelled shutters. Plain 19th-century fireplaces with cast-iron grates are present. A stone winding stair leads to the cellar. The service stair within the rear wing is a dog-leg design with stick balusters and a turned newel.