page_title: Southwick Court
section_title: Southwick Court
hierarchical_section_title: Southwick Court / Southwick Court
caption_attribution_description: English: Front cover of The Wiltshire News newspaper featuring Southwick Court
context_page_description: Southwick Court is a grade II* listed moated medieval manor house situated in the centre of a system of fields and water meadows that lie between the town of Trowbridge and the village of Southwick in Wiltshire. It has remained a private residence under a succession of different owners for at least 800 years. The current house dates back to the late 16th century, but its gatehouse is late 15th century. Both were built on the site of an even older manor house, dating back to the 13th century or before.
  The house is arranged in an L-plan design that is typical of the late 16th century. It and its associated garden and orchard are surrounded by a moat, which is fed by a leg of the Lambrok stream originating to the south in the village of North Bradley. This surrounds the house and in turn feeds into an adjoining lake, which is enclosed at the northern end by a weir, also dating from the 15th or 16th century. The stream continues beyond the weir into the surrounding water meadows, and then on into Trowbridge before finally joining the river Biss.
context_section_description: Southwick Court is a grade II* listed moated medieval manor house situated in the centre of a system of fields and water meadows that lie between the town of Trowbridge and the village of Southwick in Wiltshire. It has remained a private residence under a succession of different owners for at least 800 years. The current house dates back to the late 16th century, but its gatehouse is late 15th century. Both were built on the site of an even older manor house, dating back to the 13th century or before. 
  The house is arranged in an L-plan design that is typical of the late 16th century. It and its associated garden and orchard are surrounded by a moat, which is fed by a leg of the Lambrok stream originating to the south in the village of North Bradley. This surrounds the house and in turn feeds into an adjoining lake, which is enclosed at the northern end by a weir, also dating from the 15th or 16th century. The stream continues beyond the weir into the surrounding water meadows, and then on into Trowbridge before finally joining the river Biss.
  Internally, the house retains many of its original late 16th and early 17th Century interiors, and displays craftsmanship of a high standard. The house has a number of intricate timber features including a late 17th Century carved staircase, framing and Tudor-arched stone fireplaces. Functional remnants of its origins as a former hall house survive or are still visible, including a bread oven in the wall between the two large fireplaces on the ground floor, and the echo of a former garderobe built into the external north-eastern wall and connected to the moat through a channel which is still visible. The house also retains several stained glass and leaded windows of different styles and ages. Several bear the symbol of the White Rose of York and may have been saved from the original pre-16th Century manor house.
caption: Front cover of The Wiltshire News newspaper